I dreamed that I ran over his little tree.

I was driving a big rig and the trailer just came up alongside the cab and there was nothing I could do to prevent the wreck, just hold on helpless during the slide...right over his little pointy tree.

No one was hurt, but in the ensuing chaos someone else mentioned, laughing, the crushed tree...showed how little I care.

He doesn't know that I have new cats gracing my windowsill or that today I finally fixed what was wrong with…

It could be sung to the tune of Farmer-in-the-Dell... "Samantha on the couch, Samantha on the couch, Hi ho the cheerios, Samantha on the couch."

There really were cheerios and doritos and oreos and all manner of crumbs sprinkled around the couch where Samantha lay like a mound of laundry and Jens vacuumed around her daily.

It was like the mound of laundry had a huge hungry maw as it sucked down food and huge vats of soda, and Jens wondered if any of what Samantha consumed was…

Taylor was prepared for demons, but not ghosts.

Way back when, on the advice of his boss, Taylor's father bought stock in Coca-cola and then a little fried chicken start-up that turned out to be named Church's, which is why he bought the country house.

Taylor knew to expect demons when he left campus and drove out, meaning to hide away for while, because after all his mother had been the one who had first decorated it, and then his dad's second wife had re-decorated it and he'd…