Stories of Suspense with a Sense of Humor
What a difference a single Mickey Picayune makes. Two weeks ago, my brother, suffering from COPD caused by chemotherapy, and wholly dependent on cannisters of oxygen, awaited a lung transplant. Today, if all continues well, he will walk out of the hospital with the lungs of a soul who tragically died but was loving and … Read more
The men’s basketball coach at my alma mater lost his shit a few days ago at the end of the game. If you follow American sports at all, you’d at least have seen or heard a headline about Coach Howard smacking the opposing team’s assistant coach upside the head, triggering a brief melee. For the … Read more
My childhood was fine; I have little reason to complain: my parents were together and did their best for us, we felt loved, safe and secure. But there are some bad memories of dumb stuff I did that haunt me. I suppose some people can just shrug the dumb stuff off, and maybe that’s what … 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