The Ugly Suit.
When the manager of a men’s clothing store returned from lunch, he noticed his clerk’s hand was bandaged, but before he could ask about the bandage, the clerk had some…
When the manager of a men’s clothing store returned from lunch, he noticed his clerk’s hand was bandaged, but before he could ask about the bandage, the clerk had some…
I never thought a midlife crisis would come knocking at my door. It always sounded like something vague and distant—something that happened to other people, not to me. Henry and…
My name is Carolyn. I’m 71 years old, and six months ago my life was split into “before” and “after.” My daughter, Darla, and her husband boarded a plane for…
Mary (a brunette) and Liz (a blonde) were talking in the office one day. Mary: “Wow, that is some cold you have Liz.” Liz: “Tell me about it. I just…
I was abandon3d on a stranger’s doorstep as a newborn and raised by a single woman who used a wheelchair. For twenty-five years, she was my entire world. Then, just…
Sergeant Marcus Hale had been in the job long enough to know that trouble didn’t always announce itself with sirens. Sometimes it arrived holding a stuffed rabbit. It was a…
A very sick woman on her sick bed said to her husband: “Honey, if I die, how long would it take you before you marry another wife…?!” The man replied:…
When my stepdad died, I lost the only parent I had ever truly known. But at his funeral, a stranger pulled me aside and spoke one sentence that changed everything.…
An old man calls his son and says, “Listen, your mother and I are getting divorced. Forty-five years of misery is enough.” “Dad, what are you talking about?” the son…
Two weeks after Bram’s funeral, my phone rang and a quiet, unfamiliar voice slipped through the line with words that stole every ounce of strength from my body: “Your grandfather…