Stories of Suspense with a Sense of Humor
When I was in ninth grade, a new kid moved into my neighborhood — we’ll call him “Joe” — and I was hopeful that we’d be friends. There weren’t any boys my age in the neighborhood; just two girls, and I was terrified of girls. Joe, being the new kid, was willing to try to … Read more
I was sitting in the back seat of our station wagon, behind my father who was behind the wheel. My mother, riding shotgun, flipped through a magazine. My two older brothers sat beside me in the back seat. We’d been on the road for an hour and it wasn’t nine yet, one of the rare … Read more
I decided I wanted to be a writer my second year of college. I was in the engineering school and engineering is not usually a path to literature, but, I entered the Hopwood Awards, which is a literary prize at the University of Michigan. Arthur Miller is one of the more famous recipients of that … Read more
Did you ever have a crazy day when expectations are flipped, and just when you think one thing is going to happen, the day flips again? Of course you have. If you’re paying attention, it probably happens every day in one way or another. But sometimes it happens in a very public way with 200 … Read more
I got a chance to visit with family during Thanksgiving and to play Euchre. If you’re not familiar, Euchre is a trick-taking card game with trump (like Bridge) using half the normal deck of cards (like Pinochle). Euchre’s one mind-bender is that the jacks of the color of trump become the most powerful trump cards. … Read more