My date couldn’t make it to dinner, because at the last minute I backed down from asking her.

“A backpack could be a sleeping bag for a midget—or a hatch, a hatchback.”

“My apartment complex isn’t. In fact, it’s rather simple.”

“When someone asks, Dogs or cats? I usually say, For what, dinner?”

“I moved my hand in and out of the shadow and pondered life and death. Then I pu…”