My name is Lucinda Morrison, and I was sixty-six years old the October my world turned upside down in our quiet little town just outside Columbus, Ohio….

A man goes to the doctor with a swollen leg. After a careful examination, the doctor gives the man a pill big enough to choke a horse….

My mother had been gone for less than a month when my stepfather told me he was getting married. Not “thinking about it.” Not “seeing someone.” Married….

A bald guy walks into a bar, turns to the noticably short bartender, and says “Hey midget, gimme a beer!” The bartender gives the man a beer,…

When the manager of a men’s clothing store returned from lunch, he noticed his clerk’s hand was bandaged, but before he could ask about the bandage, the…

My husband, Julian, and I had always shared what most people would call a rare kind of closeness with his parents, Maribel and Clark. Not the stiff,…

A woman has an affair and cheats on her husband after years of happy marriage. Realizing her mistake, she starts praying to God. “Lord, I know what…

When the phone rang that afternoon, Kevin almost ignored it. He was buried under a pile of reports at work, trying to make sense of the chaos…

A retired officer goes to a shop and asks the young shopkeeper, “Give me 742 grains of green gram.” The boy, without speaking a word, quickly weighs…