“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” Lord Byron (1788–1824) If Ernest Hemingway — winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and often acclaimed as one of the greatest American authors — could say, “The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings,” you may understand my predicament in presenting this collection of stories as my first attempt at writing. It could be argued that, under such circumstances, n
