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 in...

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...

The ice storm spring 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...

Liz Wheeler, Esq.says, “I’m confused. Nothing is what it seems, whatever that means.” Her colleague,  Larry Stone, Esq. responds, “I agree. I guess we have to continue to be confused.” As you walk into the lobby of the Collins Professional Building, there is a huge...

The Noah Saga is inspired by the story of Noah's Ark as described in the bible which includes events leading up to the building of the Ark, the great flood, the rescue of pairs of all of the earth's animals, life on the Ark, and finally, landfall. In this...

Foreboding We are all too familiar with this place, this home of our fears. We wish that weren't so. Even though chairs are not assigned to any of us we nevertheless choose to sit in the same chair each time we come here. The chairs are all the same, a dull...

Forget it   People often complain about their poor memory. They might tell you "I wish my memory were better. Maybe there is something wrong with me and that is why I forget all sorts of things." I remind people that it would be even more helpful, even...

My friends and my wife think I have lost my mind. I also think I have lost it but not this time. My kids were kinder. They laughed at what I did. My 24 year daughter grinned when I told my plans to try and lose weight. She said, Todd, she never calls me Dad, "Sounds...

Part 1 Prof. Larry Putnam of Life Sciences Division of the University of California, Berkeley was blunt. "Lots of young researcher on the faculty can feel a certain amount of desperation in their attempts to get tenure. None of them did what you did which was...

Sheriff Carl said this but denied that he did. "I am here to protect our Logan community so... If they don't look like us, smell like us, talk like us, and if nothing about them is like us then I don't like them and I want to make sure they are not in our midst. They...