A friend gave me a bunch of morels. This is the largest one. They were delicious! A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Treasure from a friend. MA

Last day of May. The stories will return in 2023, but I’ll continue posting every day, Lord willin’ and the crick don’t rise. Tuesdays are food days, which is why my Tuesday stories are generally food-related. Like this one. Oh, I started the story by…
The title is inspired by the fact that a deer crossed my yard just as I sat down to write, and by the headliner — if headliner is the word I want — at a strip club not far from somewhere I used to live:…