Real Stories

He ordered the same breakfast every morning for eleven years. Then one day he did not come in.

Two eggs, bacon well done, white toast, black coffee. She never once had to write it down.

Neighbours

Her neighbour’s trash cans had not moved in three weeks. She knocked on the door anyway.

Everyone on the street had noticed. Nobody had done anything about it, and neither had she.

Family

He cleared out his father’s garage expecting junk. He found a note his father had written to him in 1994.

It had been folded in the bottom of the toolbox for thirty-one years, under the wrenches.