I went to a luncheon today for a retired colleague at a fancy Italian restaurant in the District, Carmine’s. The food was fantastic, but the…
This story was inspired by Richard Keeling’s recent Story Hall post, Missouri, 1982.
A restricted number has called my phone for the past year, it rang again yesterday. It has taken three calls to Cellular…
I overheard the following exchange: “Are you saying that I don’t look well?” “No, that would be rude.”
Part I. Fiction
People used to say of Alex that he would never tell a lie to save his life. He would never even tell a white lie. If asked to a party he did not want to go, instead of inventing a prior engagement, for example, he would…
The Maggie Smith Effectby SGHolland
by Susan G Holland ©11/24/2017
“Blackbird singing in the dead of night,
Take these broken wings and learn to fly,
His mother asked, “Phoenix, what did you think of the party?” Phoenix was stretched out in the back of the van and…