NOTE: This is a fictional report, strictly from my imagination. Any semblance to reality (person, place or thing) is purely by accident. No disparagement of anyone is intended; it is just a story. [VO = voice over] A Special Report by Cassie Robbins. [Cassie VO] This week marks the 100th anniversary of the ABS, the American Barberettes Society, a group of...
I only knew her by her screen name. I only communicated with her via e-mail. But the e-mails were so intense and detailed, I felt like we knew everything about each other, at least everything that we wanted the other to know. The communication had reached a point when a rendezvous as inevitable. The scrip had been written through months of back and forth fet...
It had been Marjorie's idea. Little Tess, her granddaughter, had developed alopecia. First a small spot on the back of her head, it had spread until Tess' mother had dreaded brushing her daughter's hair for the clumps that came out. By three little Tess had been completely hairless. Alopecia Totalis, as Marjorie insisted on telling them all. But apparently t...