Praise actions to protect real Presidency — After a week of the GOP browbeating the Department of Justice and FBI for executing a legal search warrant at Mar-A-Lago, inside sources at the Department of Justice leaked a list of top secret nuclear related materials discovered, including a still commissioned ICBM. The GOP’s response? …

For better or worse — “THE KILLER APPROACHED LAURA, one hand holding a kerosene lantern above his head, the other the bloodied axe he’d used to kill her husband. She raised her hand to her mouth and screamed. A scream that penetrated the dense forest beyond their farm house. A scream that no one would…

For better or worse — WHEN CHESTER WAS SIX-YEARS-OLD, he caught the mumps and chicken pox within a two-month span. He was so sick his mother cradled his head in her lap and sang the song “Soft Kitty” over and over until he fell asleep and she could carry him to his bed: Soft kitty Sweet…

For better or worse — RITA SCROLLED THROUGH HER TWITTER FEED while her husband Dennis channel-surfed during the break between innings. The clock read ten to midnight, and she might have been asleep were the Tigers not playing the Angels on the West Coast and the game delayed twenty minutes for rain between the eighth…

For better or worse — TODD DROVE FOR AT LEAST NINETY MINUTES, past the Missouri Pacific rail line, past the harbor where the gulls gathered along the shoreline like locusts, past the 101 expressway and the international airport. His wife Lacey picked at the strap on her mask. “It’s not like I don’t know where…

Home from Oz — …continued from yesterday IT WAS MID AFTERNOON, and Dorothy couldn’t find any of the hands in the fields. This surprised her because the hands always said Uncle Henry was a fine person but a tyrant as a boss. She whistled for Toto and set out to the south plot to…

Home from Oz — …continued from yesterday NO ONE BELIEVED DOROTHY’S stories about her adventures in Oz. Not her auntie Em, who until then had told everyone Dorothy was the most sensible girl in the world and would never make things up. Nor her Uncle Henry, which was no surprise since he responded to…

Home from Oz — …continued from yesterday NO ONE WOULD HAVE CALLED Dorothy extroverted before the tornado, but when she woke the following morning, she leaped from the bed, chattering like an excited jay chasing a cat from under its tree. While her uncle and the ranch hands divided up the repairs, deciding which…