The Negotiation

 It was a negotiation in the true sense of the word. Two people and their respective teams were at the table. Two facts complicated the negotiation. The first being that both parties believed they were more crucial to what was being negotiated, and the second that both parties wanted the negotiation to work out really badly.

Meeting the Magi

I met a really strange guy today. I was sitting at Pete's Inn, when this fellow walked in. He was in a hurry. He went over to Tom at the bar, and said, "Give me a large of something hard”.

"Now Jim," Tom said, in his most serious tone, "I don't want any trouble down here, and I certainly don't want Della to come in here at midnight, and scream the roof down and my customers out. You take it easy, old chap." With that, he turned around and from some grimy brown bottle poured the man, Jim, a large measure of some thick dark alcohol that barely splashed around in the glass.

One of Art's true stories

It's the holiday season. We're crowding around heaters, fires, television screens, and covering in blankets. Couches are paradise, and with hot tea or hot chocolate elixir, we can watch ourselves breathe. But there's not much else we can do.

Times like these call for a story. You know a lot of people have a favourite story, one they are so absolutely in love with, they must tell it again and again.