Special Occasions

ME: For my birthday this year, will you laugh at one of my jokes? WIFE: [Laughing.] Does that count?

I had a thought yesterday.

It coalesced into a void.

The Stoneslide was waiting for a walk light

along a busy street. The sun was high, its light and heat intense. A gentle breeze cooled Stoneslide’s fellow pedestrians, about twenty in number, as everyone waited.

One person was telling her friend how she and her husband had just got a rescue dog.