It had seemed like an excellent idea at the time to call Mother on her 70th birthday. Summer in Round Top Texas was the place where wonderful musicians played different repertoires in the huge barn-like building. But I was outside in a rickety phone booth in the woodsy part of the country behind the theater. …
Not So Stormy After All
It was a dark and stormy night. After they finished dessert, he left. Bit by bit, she began to clean up the Sunday papers and the coffee mugs. When she picked up the brown one, his brown one, she noticed it had a chip on the rim near the handle. She tossed it in the …
Wherever it was she was supposed to be, she was sure it was not here.
“Ma’am. Open the car door,” the officer said. He was threatening, though very small, about as tall as the car window he was shouting at. “I can’t the alarm will go off, she shouted back, “Ma’am. Then. Open this window,” he said. Good thing she could read lips. “I can’t. My husband took the keys. …