“It would be better if you were dead”, I hear my mother say As we sit in a corner booth at the local Olive Garden   The waiter – he is...

A goddamn medical procedure   I see the nurses are wearing powder blue scrubs and yellow facial coverings – gloves – they are wearing...

So, I tell him I have artificial teeth and wait for his reply – Hoping he’ll reveal the truth of a peg leg beneath the fabric of his...