Synopsis: A man on his way to work finds a young woman in need of a friend.After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.Podcast discussion of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, ...

This memoir stands out as a beautifully written account of a mostly happy, mostly normal, fully real life at once both ordinary and extraordinary. Sheirer explores intensely personal experiences and relationships with humor, surprise, awe, suspense, and deep insight. With the depth of a memoir and the flow of a novel, Sheirer chronicles how his simple youth of farm, sports, school, nature, and family led him to an unlikely adulthood as an author and college professor.

John Sheirer’s Stumbling Through Adulthood: Linked Stories showed his immense skill for traditional-length short stories. For Now: One Hundred 100-Word Stories shows equal facility with the microfiction form. These stories range from gentle humor so light it might float off the page in a soft breeze to dense, powerful tales that threaten to sink through the book’s cover and bore directly into the earth’s molten core. “Here, in these finely wrought tales, is a universal current of humanity ...

Donald Trump doesn’t want you to listen to this book. Trump is president. Unfortunately, that bell can’t be unrung. But what if ... What if, for a very brief period of time, Donald Trump had actually developed a sliver of moral decency just before the election? What if he thought he was going to lose the election? Even more importantly, what if he thought that he should lose the election because he realized that he’s a terrible person with no business being president? What if Donald Trump ...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - September 2020Idle Horns: A horned demon of hell born to eternally torture the damned walks off the job.The Mind Reader: An outspoken bar patron runs an experiment to see if the world can be divided into the "weak" and the "strong" in attempt to prove he's not an authoritarian fascist.I, von Economo: A woman goes back to get revenge on the ma...