Sheila recalled that summer day with sheer delight while everyone else remembered only an embarrassing encounter in which she threw herself at Hank who diligently ignored her advances.

Absurdities abounded in the new world that felt as if it belonged in a B movie comedy and not as our day-to-day reality.

But hadn't all the stories already been told?

After a meteoric rise from the mean streets of Miami he was now living above his means and inching closer to being back on the street.

The endgame was to never have the game end.

The dreamers couldn't wake up from the nightmare.

The biggest thrill in our little town that summer was watching the firefighters try to get an infamously pugnacious cat named Felix out of an ancient and decrepit pine tree.