Stories of Suspense with a Sense of Humor
Along the shores of Lake Erie and its tributaries, there is a water snake that is not venomous but it has the magical power of making me crap my pants. I don’t like snakes, and these water snakes (scientific name: Bloomer Poopers) are nasty, slithering around like they own the place. I’m told they bite, … Read more
Before I was born, just after the middle of the previous century, my uncle bought a small cottage on the shore of the Sandusky Bay in Ohio. The yard sloped down to a beach where there was twenty feet of sand to the water. Our family visited him at his cottage often, and those childhood … Read more
I went in for a job interview once and I liked what I heard about the company: they had great revenue, the employees shared in the profits, and the owner was selling out to a group of employees who pooled their money to take over. Everyone was excited about the future. I wanted the job, … Read more
When I was eleven, my father took me to watch my cousin play in the junior varsity football game on a Saturday morning. Some of my classmates were there at the stadium and I tried to hang with them. Although I wasn’t in this particular clique, I thought finding ourselves at the same event on … Read more
Our carpeting needs to be replaced. It needed to be replaced shortly after it was installed because, for two months, our dog, Shaggy (may he Rest In Peace) had persistent and massive diarrhea. Every day, when I returned home from work, there would be a HUGE mess to clean up. Some days it was half … Read more