“That’s not a nice thing to say,” the woman said. I laughed out loud, whereupon the party of three looked at me. I was leaning against the wall on a corner of Commercial Street in the old port area of Portland, Maine watching people. Usual collection: old, young, singles, groups and families wandered, strolled and walked purposefully past me. Most…
Month: September 2018
Koji, Killer Cat
“There is a mouse by your shoulder!” said my bride, Akemi, in a not-at-all-calm voice. I sat up quickly and looked back at where I had been laying, sure enough, a dead mouse had been tucked into the crook of my neck. I have always told Akemi that our cat, Koji (runt in Japanese), is a cold blooded killer. At…