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Uncles With Tails..!
She was just seventeen, French and weeping on my daughter’s shoulder as she came out of the restaurant where we’d
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October 28, 2020
Cold Walls..!
And today, a story of Smiley from a play I had written years ago. Smiley was a convict imprisoned in
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October 27, 2020
Lyncher or Linchpin..!
Lynch is a bad word today, with mobs roaming the country lynching for the smallest reason and the Supreme Court
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October 26, 2020
Testing Times..!
Why did my wife go down with the Covid-19 virus? Isolated for fifteen days, initially with a high viral count?
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October 26, 2020
Smiling, Despite an Alcoholic Husband..!
She was standing alone, inside the badly lit store, sipping a soft drink. It was late in the evening. “Nothing
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October 24, 2020
Are YOU Courteous at Home?
“Your husband,” I told the pretty lady standing at the entrance of the park where I walk everyday, “is such
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October 23, 2020
Feel Good Headlines..!
“Economy at Doorstep of Recovery, says RBI guv” the headlines in today’s paper said and immediately felt a sense of
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October 22, 2020
The Class Reunion..!
She was late, and from outside the hall she heard the sound of noisy revelry flowing. She entered, and heard
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October 21, 2020
Compromising with Covid..!
It beats me, we haven’t beaten Covid yet. Everybody but everybody has a remedy for it, and most of them
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October 20, 2020
A Longer, Whiter Beard..!
It was on one of these Zoom calls that this pretty friend asked, “What’s with the beard Bob?” “I’ve always
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October 19, 2020
Stand Tall Like The Bamboo..!
A doctor friend dropped in one night, he appeared sad and beaten. A patient who had been operated upon in
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October 18, 2020
Wagging the Dog’s Tail..!
My daughter was furious as she walked into the room. “What are you doing dad?” she exclaimed. “Wagging the dog’s
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October 17, 2020