They found arsenic, strychnine, and cyanide in his vomit. Unfortunately, they found the same three ingredients in the yams left on the plate that Frankie had prepared himself. Witnesses in the kitchen confirmed that Frankie had been the only person warming the yams and one witness was willing to ...
Mothers can relate to The Incredible Hulk. We all have those gentle Bruce Banner moments where our lives and children are calm, enriching and fulfilling. Birds sing on our shoulder while we bake cookies and our well-mannered kids sip lemonade on the front porch. Life is good. On the flip side...
The next thing I knew, I was sitting at my kitchen table wrapped in my warm, red fleece blanket sobbing and wringing my hands. My vision had tunneled, the periphery black. I put my attention on the blurry mug on the table next to me, until the blackness faded and it came into focus. There were vo...
I thought about it all night long and didn’t sleep a wink. Thank goodness for that sugar-induced nap I’d taken before the spaghetti dinner. Finally, at five a.m. I got out of bed. Sometimes showers help me sort out my thoughts, so I took another one and sure enough, it helped. Somewhere between t...
I feared for a minute while Howard jiggled it back and forth, that we would have to resort to the coat hanger method of breaking in. His persistence prevailed, however, and soon we were not-so-systematically digging through the belongings in Colt’s precious automobile. The papers on the passenger...
on the Fourth of July I blame myself. I showed her the poster. Bjorn! What kind of name is that for a magician, anyway? See, my youngest daughter Amber was going through a new phase. She'd had her fairy phase, her Disney Princess phase, and her Josie and the Pussycats phase. Now she was going thr...
Colt was grabbed by the collar and jerked into the building. At the same time, my arm was yanked tight behind my back. So tight that another millimeter of movement and it would have snapped. Shashi was playing this thing real. My arm truly hurt. Bunny yelped. I was hoping she hadn’t peed her pant...