Simply the Best

Still trying to get over this horrible cough/cold.  My lungs feel more compromised than a Victorian maiden caught skinny dipping with the stable boy.  So I've been sleeping and reading, since nothing else is happening.  Reading inevitably turns to my "comfort reads."

Giovanni Guareschi remains – to my mind – the best writer of short short fiction (Not flash. His stories run about 1 to 2 k words, I’d guess) who ever worked. This is probably a personal quirk of mine, predicated on having read him w