Word-At-A-Time-Blog

Today was going to be the second darkest day of the year… and Herg Ploont hated himself for having missed the fact that YESTERDAY had been December 21st, the darkest day of the year. He sighed to himself, eyes closed, relaxing in bed. He thought back to all the times he had been late for … Read more

Windham Labec had never noticed ‘Tony’s Barber Shop’ before, and, feeling a little scraggly, decided to stop in. “Eh,” said the barber, greeting him in a thick accent as he worked on a customer seated in the barber’s chair. “Hey,” said Windham, chuckling a bit to himself. What were the odds that ‘Tony’ the barber … Read more

When Alice felt like she needed a little personal time, she would go to her secret jar on her bookcase, stuck behind Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers”. This was her therapy; there were 40 loonies in the jar, but no matter how precisely she counted, the end result was always the same. “Rabbit Dollars’. The sum of … Read more