The Visit

"He is quite fair skinned," the doctor said.
"Will he need further testing," the nurse asked, scribbling while she spoke.
"During the day he is quite active and his sugars are in acceptable control."
She stopped scribbling and looked up at him. She pulled the reading glasses from her face and let them fall to dangle from the chain.
"Yes, he will need further testing."
She wrote it down.

The Humidifier

"If the windows sweat turn it down to 25 degrees."
"Okay," I said.
"It should be fine, though, with the high ceilings and all of the wood."
"Okay," I said.
"Did someone turn it off on purpose?"
"Don't know," I said.
He folded the step-ladder and pulled out the iPad to do the invoice.

The Angelus

Tony looked around and saw the subservient fear in the faces of his 61 classmates. Well, really only 60 because Gary Jeffries was hanging from the collar of his coat in the cloakroom, the standard punishment for failure to recognize the Angelus bells that rang each day during the lunch recess.