Needs a Referral
Kendra was puzzled; every time she had her teeth cleaned and tried to make an appointment for the next cleaning, the office managers would suggest she find a different dentist’s office . . .
Parting–Sweet Sadness
Sadly, Joel had to part with his new pet, Bruce. The apartment manager cited lack of house training, but unspoken was the matter of the missing Jones cat, the disappearance of ChiChi (the Shi Tzu), and one of the Martinez kids not making it home from school . . .
Sharp Dressed Man
Eustace had tried to find and define himself in dress. He had tried the western look, boots, buckle, hat, and had tried both the grunge thing and the goth look, but was finally inspired when he heard the Z Z Top song “Sharp Dressed Man…”
Vertical Markets
Annieke, from Holland, was majoring in marketing at Harvard and told her father about her studies involving vertical markets. When she returned home, she saw that her father’s attempt to integrate her new-found knowledge may have suffered from a translation problem . . .
Twisted Logic
Dmitri was at a loss–the old guy had come to Home Depot in Prague to buy double pane glass for the two windows that had single pane glass, confident the new double pane glass would cut his heating bill significantly. Somehow (maybe too much slivovitz in his breakfast coffee) he failed to understand that not also fixing the totally missing panes with something, even single pane just wasn’t going to help . . .
The Bride of Chucky
Even though he was a newcomer to Hollywood, Thom had been offered the lead in a screen adaptation of Tom Clancy’s iconic novel “The Cardinal Of The Kremlin,” but with his naturally dark face, he had hoped to a score a lead in “The Return Of The Bride Of Chucky. . . “