Stories

Time on your hands and everywhere else: A Noah’s Ark Science Story: edited The animals remained in the dining room, munching on tonight's dessert, rhubarb pie. The Star Gazer, sitting near the German Land Lizard, commented on the pie. "I guess the chef does not...

    Life Decisions Inc Part 1 Larry Simmons   Edited I’ve always thought fiction is just truth wearing a costume. Change a few names, move the setting around, and what you’re left with is still something real — sometimes more real than the facts would suggest....

The dog park may need some additional editing Who knows why couples like Sheila and Jim Hastings stay together. Then the question is, why do they stay together? I don’t get it, and the answer is so what. Is that question at about the same level of complexity as why do...

Confirmation edited I can’t ask my brother Ernst whether many of my memories of our childhood are correct. If he were alive I would ask him “Wasn’t our phone number at home when we were little kids WA (wadsworth) 6-9027? There are so many other things I want to ask...

  Whose Home edited story I was shocked, didn’t know what to expect but how could I know what I would see, remember, walking back, not sneaking back in time, lost, but here I am. Just stood there, paralyzed? Yes, but I continue to stand in front of what I think...

Whose panties are they?  edited story 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...

Bernd Barth catches a train Everything matters including how you deal with fear edited story 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...

3rd car of the D train edited story 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...

Leopold's Cafe   edited story 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...

After dinner edited story 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...