The Elevator Trilogy

Life is short. Are you tired of not having anything good to read while you’re eating out at the diner by yourself? Have you flipped through the magazines and catalogs you keep in your bathroom one too many times?

Now you’ll have an answer for people who try to intimidate you, intellectually speaking, by asking, “So what have you read lately?” without your having put in all that much effort.

Just tell them the name of the last short-short story you read and my name. They'll think you read a whole book. ("Yeah, like that's ever going to happen.")

"Very impressive," they'll say to themselves. "You're reading, what, a book or two a week?"

What do they know?