Debbie Roth

“Among the latest follies in fiction is the perpetual demand for stories shorter and shorter still. The only thing to do is to meet this demand at the source and check it. Any of the stories below, if left to soak overnight in a barrel of rainwater, will swell to the dimensions of a dollar-fifty novel.”
― Stephen Leacock, Further Foolishness

“To be hated for what she was, and not who. The idea pushed him past anger to sadness. How could someone fight that kind of hatred?”
― J.N. Chaney, Casualties of Consequence

“Mommy says I have to brush each night before prayers, so I can talk to God with a clean mouth.”
― EE Isherwood, 1000 Miles of Bad Road 3: After the EMPs

“At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. She untwined herself from the arms of Admiral Paul Henry Bastedo who served under Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, and proposed they get married in the morning so he could be her date at her late husband’s funeral. To the tabloids’ delight, the newlyweds took Helen Prindeville Griffin Bastedo’s private railway car to Lake Forest, Illinois, to attend the service. The act so outraged the Griffin family that they used their juice with Union Pacific to divert the train and the unlucky passengers coupled to Helen’s private car. The train choo-chooed deep into Wisconsin, denying the newlyweds their grand entrance to the funeral.”
― Griffin Dunne , The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir