Comedy stories.
Lighter stories played for laughs.
The Game Day I Towed Them All
The first thing I saw that Saturday was a man I had never met standing in my iris bed, drinking a beer, at nine in... Read more
The Cadillac That Finally Paid Me Back
My new neighbor kept running over my trash cans until his own Cadillac finally paid me back My name is Hollis Barnett, and for thirty-one... Read more
The Zucchini War of Maple Street
The first shot of the war was fired over a chain-link fence on Maple Street in August of the year my husband died, when my... Read more
The Reply All That Almost Spoiled Everything
I have owned a smartphone for four years, and I want it on record that in all four of those years, my thumb has been... Read more
The Bake Sale Chili Mix-Up That Became Legend
My name is Wilma, I am fifty-eight years old, and until one Saturday in October I would have told you there was nothing left in... Read more
The Zucchini War of Maple Street
The first shot of the war was fired over a chain-link fence on Maple Street in August of the year my husband died, when my... Read more
The Speaker That Ordered Everything Wrong
It was 6:52 on a Tuesday morning in the second week of March when I stood in my own kitchen in my long johns and... Read more
The Gnome War That Ended in Friendship
There was a plaster gnome standing in the middle of my peony bed with a chip out of his pointed hat and a grin like... Read more
The Bingo War That Made Us Friends
There is a particular sound a bingo dauber makes when you slam it down on a card just a little harder than you need to,... Read more
Grandpa Fell for His Smart Speaker
We bought it as a joke. That is the part I have to start with, because it is the part I am most ashamed of... Read more