The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

by Colleen Oakley

“Because only a man would find the need to announce it every time he performed his job as required,” Louise replied.

“Well, I hate Metamucil, too, but it gets the job done.”

People always said life was short, but it wasn’t. Not really. You could cram so many different lives into one. Be so many different people.

“Sometimes it just feels like we still spend so much time trying to teach the house not to catch on fire, instead of teaching the arsonist not to light it.”