The Humor Side

The slap landed so hard that the edge of my wedding ring cut the inside of my palm. For three

17 – 22 minutes I came home from the hospital feeling lighter than I had in years, convinced the hardest

26 – 33 minutes “My daddy said he would only be gone for thirty minutes…” The seven-year-old’s voice trembled so

15 – 19 minutes Peter Calder had been working on the loose hinge of his front door for almost an

12 – 15 minutes PART 2 “Wait,” I said, looking up from the yellowed 1953 document on Harold’s desk. “You’re

The seatbelt light chimed above my head, but the sound barely registered.  My thumb kept tapping replay on the voicemail

I came home from work and found my wife standing outside our own gate, holding a tiny grocery bag as

17 – 22 minutes Every date ended with the promise of another. By sunrise, the woman would be gone without

37 – 46 minutes My mother called me in the middle of a blizzard to say she was freezing to

16 – 21 minutes At 2:17 a.m., First Sergeant Ronald Sutton’s phone rang across a damp Georgia training field. The