SETTING: Interior office. Gold records and guitars are hanging on the walls. Two men in well-tailored suits are sitting around the desk in the office. There is a fireplace burning on one wall. EXECUTIVE ONE: (reading a magazine) I say, old sport, I happened a glance at my e-mail the other day, and I had…
Author: sparky
The Time Appointed to Men
or (Christmas, part three) To say that it was difficult to see my grandfather old, toothless, and frail there on a hospital bed would be inaccurate. At some level, I realize that life is temporary, fleeting, ephemeral. Difficult implies an inability to accept, or that this turn of events was somehow unexpected, which it wasn’t….