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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Memory and more: A Noah's Ark Science Story Remembering forgotten events Part 1 Most of the animals felt stuffed. They had eaten too much of their favorite dishes and now sat slumped in their chairs. The reptiles could hardly keep their eyes open and some of the...

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 liberating, to be...