The kookiest thing that ever happened to me at a crime scene was when a detective gave me his card. Not to talk about the case, but because he wanted writing advice. I took his card and looked at it and thought, my friend is dead in the next room and you want to talk […]
To the reader: My Friend the Spy is a Great Whatsit serial. It is a true story (save for the author’s pseudonym), to be told in weekly installations over the coming months. Read Part I here.
That Saturday night, with no other plans in my datebook, I decided to go to Berg’s party – even though […]
Last week an ominous-looking letter came in the mail from Sallie Mae. Turns out they weren’t looking for me, but wondering if I knew the whereabouts of John T., an old friend and roommate from grad school. John had defaulted on his loans. Did I know where he was?
Unfortunately, I do know. […]
This perfect September air has brought me home, to California. I wake up and smell eucalyptus and beach fog, cool mornings and warm days. I see, in my mind, the house I loved. It stood out among all of the stucco pre-orders: it was a ranch home. The kind on which they modeled the pre-fab […]
Marshall
I saw Marshall last year as a new patient who needed a physical. He had no other medical complaints. On exam I observed that he was sixty pounds overweight. And his blood tests showed the beginning of diabetes and high cholesterol. Moreover, his blood pressure was on the border of being […]