I had thought it was going to be a fairly uneventful day, but then I went into the basement.

After a baking summer, the last few wet, rainy days had left the air humid and the ground saturated, so I decided to head down into the basement to dump the water in the dehumidifier.

The bulb had burned …

Where Have All the Children Gone?

By Kendall Giles

I have to make a confession. When I was in the fourth grade at Sandusky Elementary School, I was one of those kids who dealt in the black market. See, there was this other fourth-grader there named Jerry C., and I had inside knowledge that he was …