I’m Margaret Goodenough and I’m your guide for this afternoon. Photography is permitted outside the house, but not […]
Category Archive: Short Stories
In the bad old days (BOD) before legalization, my husband Mac and our teenage son, Teo, propagated six […]
The bait. A small amount of food used to attract a fish or animal. That day, you post […]
Nell’s flushed face greets me as she whips the door open. She grins enthusiastically, as always, puts her […]
She stretches out on a sun lounger every day. Her coffee-toned body is shiny with oil, a straw […]
‘Hello and welcome to Your Real Life with me, Professor Linda Oberman. Today we are talking about addictions. […]
Creak, creak, creak. Men going up to Clarissa’s flat again, first one, then another. I listen and, after […]
Francesca Green wasn’t doing anything to mark her 41st birthday but she was completely fine with that. She […]
My hunch is confirmed during the New Year’s Eve dinner party at a local restaurant, The Pink Pig, […]
‘She’s got to go.’ I stomped into the sitting room. ‘Absolutely not,’ my husband Alan said, a freshly […]
Fatty Betty was a pig that ate everything and eventually became so extremely fat that she had difficulty […]
You’ve been asking what I did with Leonard’s ashes, and I will tell you. But first, I need […]
Giles and his friend Rupert joke about starting an urban fox hunt, how they would gallop down the […]
Well, that’s a surprise – the mic’s not working. I’ll soldier on anyway; isn’t that what we do […]