Drinking coffee

After he reached 50, his days became 20 minutes drinking coffee and 23 hours and 40 minutes anticipating drinking coffee.

The Smart Chicken

Of their 18 hens, one was out in the yard every morning. The old man couldn’t find her secret roosting place.

Then his daughter spied the hole in the chicken wire. The hen, she discovered, would go into the coop with the others every night, but was the only one that figured out how to escape.

What could they do with a smart chicken like that?

They ate her.

Unformed Clouds

"I'm from the future," she said.

"What's the future like?" I asked.
"It's raining," she said.