By Charles Caruso
Thinking leads to drinking.
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How to lose 120 pounds in one day: Get divorced.
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Joy is a lightning flash. Then night wins again.
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Dogs think they’re people. They shouldn’t underrate themselves like that.
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Half awake: Footsteps downstairs. Mother making breakfast. All is well. Then fully awake: Mother is long gone. The hell with breakfast.
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People announce their candidacy, campaign night and day to great cheers, then take office and become politicians—the most despised of humans.
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A mugging is an urban reality check.
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Halloween: The only holiday when we laugh at death.
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The first sentence of a novel tells us everything.
