Imagine a man driving a rented moving van down a major highway that leads toward the downtown area of a large metropolitan area. It’s Friday afternoon. Traffic is picking up. It’s 1989. It’s Texas. It’s August It’s blazing hot outside. His...
A certain woman decided one day that she would begin competing in triathlons. She had been a swimmer decades earlier, in high school, and had been a recreational jogger for several years, even running in the occasional road race. However, she had no competitive...
This is the story of two towns set on opposite sides of a small mountain range. The towns were close enough to each other that people living in one could easily visit the people living in the other without having to cross over the mountain range or circumnavigate its...
A certain young woman lived at the foot of the Pyrenees in a small village in Southern France. Just like her great grandfather, grandfather, and father, she worked in the family bakery, where it was a great source of pride that they made the best bread in the world....
A certain woman received a letter saying that she had inherited a house from a distant relative. The house was in a nearby town and, from the pictures included with the letter, was much nicer than the woman’s current home. According to the letter, there was only...
