I don’t know about you and yours, but my family always excused ourselves from company for private purposes with this phrase: Excuse me, I have to see a man about a dog. Wikipedia says (so, of course, it must be true): The earliest confirmed publication…
Before our favorite li’l grocery shut down because the owners moved to Florida, we bought a package of Amish-raised chickens’ breasts. Yeah, to my vegan/vegetarian friends, that does sound pretty ghoulish. ANYWAY, I decided I’d better cook them before the freezer burned them, so I…
I first “met” Damyanti Biswas through the A-to-Z blogging challenge. She had elected to write a short story every day (yes, this was before Story A Day May). Unlike my May stories, Damyanti’s daily stories were gems: the kind of “literary” that makes people say,…
