Eggs and other stuff

My favorite story in How Some People Like Their Eggs is "Coffee Pot Tree." The story features a retrospective first person narrator, looking back on the days leading up to when the tree was "topped, dropped, and carted away." I like how this story, through the narrator, creates a complete sense of suburbia. There's the "secretary for the Neighborhood Advisory and Recreation Committee [NARC:]," there's lawn winterizing and leaf-blowing, and there are "domestic rodents." I also love the simple a...