A little bit of everything
Les Cohen is a long-term Marylander, having grown up in Annapolis. Professionally, he writes and edits materials for business and political clients from his base of operations in Columbia, Maryland. He has a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Economics. Leave a comment or feel free to send him an email to Les@Writeaway.us.
This forty-second installment is called “Cleavage.” It’s a short-short story about a workplace distraction and about the coworkers and family doing their best to fix it without hurting anyone’s feelings.
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Make your campaign about the lack of progress your opponent has made. Ask the question, trite as it may be, “How are you better off today than you were when Mayor Scott or former Mayor Dixon was first elected?”
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This forty-first installment is called “The Hangover.” It’s a short-short story about drinking too much and the consequences of eating the worm in a very special bottle of Tequila.
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Could it be that the Post Office has changed its policy since the GAO report, fifty-three years ago? That it no longer purchases, maintains and replaces CBUs at its expense? Not even in Columbia?
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This fortieth installment is called “I, Your Son.” It’s a short-short story about the future of artificial intelligence – and love between humanoids, real and… whatever.
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This thirty-ninth installment is called “First Date.” It’s a short-short story about love happening when you weren’t expecting it, on a crowded city sidewalk, on your way to work.
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I’ve long suspected that we, as a society, are not entirely sure whether we’re coming or going. Now I have
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This thirty-eighth installment is called “Unfaithful.” It’s a short-short story about a couple that hasn’t been dating for all that long struggling to understand the ground rules of their commitment to each other.
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Facing a climatic existential threat, the cause of which, in the United States, has largely to do with vehicle emissions, we desperately need to convert our national fleet of 280 million vehicles from gasoline to electric power as soon as possible. And our answer to that challenge is a $7,500 tax credit of which only people making $100,000 or more can take full advantage.
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This thirty-seventh installment is called “Road Trip.” It’s a short-short story about a long-married couple leaving to go on a road trip, talking to each other the way only the best of friends know how to do.
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