Short, shorter and shortest

Our writers' group is busy preparing our next anthology, to be released for Christmas. We've done one a year for the last few years, and Fine Lines was our last effort, in celebration of the lines on my mother's 90-year-old face.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1731536100/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4Meanwhile members have submitted stories and poems to various anthologies, and one of my friends was recently published in the Itty Bitty Writing Space. So I had to get a copy and read it. And...