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2020, As it Were
Highlights from the 2020 Journal© January – Out of rehab (not what you are thinking). In a wheelchair after four hours of surgery. Moved...
MX13NX
You didn’t want to be late these days, things being the way they are. I waited outside the front door on the steps until three minutes...
Adieu mon ami
Memories of Elaine I am sorry that I am unable to join you today to celebrate the life of a truly extraordinary and exceptional person –...
The Old Lady Learns to Drive
The Old Lady Learns to Drive a short story by Matthew T. Hastings When she was twenty-five, and her husband was killed in an air raid...
The Truth About the Cook
The Truth About the Cook a short story by Matthew T. Hastings A great many people, probably most people, spend considerable time...
The Old Colored Man Breaks the Law (again)
The Old Colored Man Breaks the Law (again) a Short Story by Matthew T. Hastings What he was about to do was against the law. Then...
From the Castle
I am reading an article in a week-old New York Times that a fellow latte-dependent left behind in the funky coffee shop in this Delaware...
The End of this Life
He was so cold. He hated to be cold. I couldn’t let him be cold. All he had on him was a white sheet. The room’s AC was at full blast. He...
An Anniversary
A month after he died, July 2018, I went to the beach to watch the sunrise with a friend who was with me when the undertakers took Jerry...
The Last Word
Obituaries have always intrigued me. I was 12 When I delivered the "Greenfield Recorder-Gazette" I remember I had 52 customers and they...
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