Nevermore

Nerd Camp
Irene Zion's husband loved summer camp. He expected his children to have similar feelings about the camps they attended. He was wrong.

Meet the Zions: An Introduction for the New TNBers
Irene Zion thinks the new TNB writers might want to meet some of the old guard, since a commenter asked her who Lenore Zion was.

There Is a Very Simple Reason for Me to Have Broken My Ribs
Irene Zion learns to be careful about what she shares on Facebook.

The Kid from Mercury
The author remembers one of her children when he was small. Sometimes remembering entails complications.

Is There an Angry God?

The Unexpected Christmas Gift

Victor Sleep Disorder

Halloween at the Hospital
A story about people dressing up like idiots and the miracles of modern medicine.

The Flying Pedestal
A story proving that you CAN go home again.

The Lady in the Chair
An ordinary day of volunteering brings the reader suddenly upon despair.

A Thousand Words: A Sort of Funny Death Story
A story about the fabrication of a life story for a woman’s eulogy before her protracted suicide.

Blowback from the Amputation
A snippet in the life of a woman who has full responsibility for her certifiably crazy, suicidal mother.

Hungry Sara
Marvel at the eating history of a very strange child.

The Invisible Side of the Family
A shocking revelation that doesn’t come until after the comments.

Life in Zimbabwe Today
Read about the most beautiful, horrible place on earth.

The Party Began Before We Even Got to Africa
The untoward and embarrassing results of taking a sleeping pill on a plane.

Just a Little Bomb
The story of what was meant to be a solution to a raccoon problem but didn’t work.

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Gang Aft Aglay
Try to surprise your family on Thanksgiving and see how wrong it can all turn out.

Paranoid Mode
How very bad things can go wrong if you try to take a vacation, including food poisoning and an amputation.

My First Two Children Were Scarred for Life in 1973
A story about a surprise party that went wildly awry in so many ways.

Another Phone Call and Another Red Car
Yet another story proving children superior in nefarious craftiness than their easily dupable parents.

Why My Brother Has Ten Fingers
A story of a mother’s compulsion to inflexible tidiness to the detriment of her son’s fingers remaining intact.

1000 Words: One Night In The Cold Central Illinois Winter
A story about the gullibility and utter blindness of parents and the cleverness of their unprincipled, diabolical children.