I’m Laura, and for most of my adult life, I wanted nothing more than to be a mother. My husband, Caleb, and I had been married for nine years, and… Read more
Every Monday morning for years, at about 11:30 am, the telephone operator in a small Sierra-Nevada town received a call from a man asking the exact time. One day the… Read more
I never thought that stopping for a crying baby on a freezing dawn would take me from scrubbing toilets for minimum wage straight to the top floor of the same… Read more
A retired officer goes to a shop and asks the young shopkeeper, “Give me 742 grains of green gram.” The boy, without speaking a word, quickly weighs 200 grams of… Read more
When the phone rang that afternoon, Kevin almost ignored it. He was buried under a pile of reports at work, trying to make sense of the chaos that came with… Read more
A woman has an affair and cheats on her husband after years of happy marriage. Realizing her mistake, she starts praying to God. “Lord, I know what I did was… Read more
My husband, Julian, and I had always shared what most people would call a rare kind of closeness with his parents, Maribel and Clark. Not the stiff, polite family dynamic… Read more
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… Read more
A bald guy walks into a bar, turns to the noticably short bartender, and says “Hey midget, gimme a beer!” The bartender gives the man a beer, but tells the… Read more
My mother had been gone for less than a month when my stepfather told me he was getting married. Not “thinking about it.” Not “seeing someone.” Married. To my mother’s… Read more