“Yes, Uncle Cy?” “Someone here to see you.” I paused in my task of setting the tables for Friday’s lunch. My hands were full of flatware. I dropped the knives and forks in a clattering heap and headed for the front desk. I co...
Steve said last year they let a fellow named Ernest Fortune take a brand new Camaro for a spin, and he drove it all the way to California. The highway patrol was alerted in a dozen states, but before he could be spotted and arrested for grand theft auto, Ernest totaled the Camaro and killed himse...
They seemed first to need time to come down from the panic, to travel from the frenzied episode on the fifth floor to the quiet, sweet normalcy of the canteen.Jane breathed deeply, savoring the sense of relief. Then she said, “If his blood pressure had kept going up, couldn’t he have had a stroke...
He had occupied the same spot often as a boy, had sat there looking out over the water, daydreaming. He’d had so many dreams once. Nothing grandiose, nothing even very far beyond his reach. Just simple dreams of doing something with his life. Maybe owning a business, maybe designing buildings or ...
We swore we would pray for each other every day, asking God to give us our daddies back. We would pray faithfully until God answered, even if it took the rest of our lives. To seal the pact, which we decided to call our Daddy Deal, we stretched our arms across the gap between the beds and clasped...