The Continuing Story
Introducing the continuing story of Jan and Bob
The Marriage of True Minds We sleep in separate bedrooms now and text to communicate. I won’t get within six feet of him, but I’m not leaving, nor is he, now that we both know our true minds. It started with an earworm. A couple of weeks ago I was weeding one of the...
Episode Two
Minding Murder Barefoot in my nightgown, I stand at the window, staring at the deserted pre-dawn street. The red glow of ambulance lights pulses across silent lawns and sleeping houses. I squeeze my eyes shut and open them again. No, I’m not dreaming. And as the...
Episode Three
Power Play “Ready?” Bob asks. He is beside me in the driver’s seat. It takes my brain an extra split second to register the unfamiliar face. Just before we left home, he’d shaved off the long, grey, pandemic beard that made him look like a member of ZZ Top. He looks...
Episode Four
Kamakura A tinny voice echoes through the vaults of YVR, announcing that our flight to Tokyo is yet again delayed, drawing groans from our fellow passengers seated with us at gate E83. A wave of thoughts floods into my mind before I can block it: Oh, for Chrissakes!...
Episode 5
Ikebukuro Let me start by saying that Bob and I did not intend to lose our granddaughter in the middle of Tokyo during a national emergency, even though she was behaving like an enfant terrible. We were just trying to get some rest. How could we have known what...