Old Wives’ Tales

It’s uncanny how some of these old sayings are true.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” said my wife as she waved goodbye to me on the way to spend a month with her mother.

Since then I have grown quite fond of my next door neighbour — I actually gave her one on the living room carpet this morning.

Where Angels Fear

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.