Apr 6, 2025 | Stories
Mathilda, Oscar’s mom, asked him to go to the basement of their apartment building and put the washed clothes in the dryer. Oscar hated the basement. The roaches there were large and vicious and he saw them eyeing him always ready to pounce. Mathilda stood next to a...
Apr 5, 2025 | Stories
Everything matters including how you deal with fear The rainbow of scents from the flower stand are gone, replaced by the odor of stale beer. The café Geiger, gone. Thaler’s luggage shop is no more. The little shops in the central railroad station in Strasburg that...
Apr 3, 2025 | Stories
Spring finished early. It is now mid-May and someone has turned up the early morning heat in Brooklyn. Many of the people filling the D subway train cars screeching towards Manhattan were dressed for summer and so the short skirts blew up and about and some of the...
Mar 31, 2025 | Stories
Today Larry did not go to his office at Global Financial. Today was a beautiful warm spring day. Today was the day he wouldn’t see Barbara, the assistant manager at Global Financial. Today was the day he needed her not on the couch in her office but just to hold him...
Mar 30, 2025 | Stories
Keith’s voice was slurry but insistent. “I’m pretty sure I know where we are. Joan, make a left at the next intersection by the light.” Keith sat in the back seat next to Wendy, Ron’s wife while Ron sat up front with Joan. Joan insisted that Keith shouldn’t drive...
Mar 30, 2025 | Stories
Flehingen Observer L.K. Stern No new news. This disaster story continues and so it seems to be the end of the world around us, the land of Medina. Maybe somewhere else there is a spring but not here. Where? How did this happen? I wish I could report better news but...
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