Author: shahid shabbir

James Gandolfini wasn’t always the big, balding mobster from The Sopranos. Gandolfini was playful in his youth, decades before he played the enigmatic violent sociopath on The Sopranos.   The Sopranos’ charming…

Felix, a middle-aged single parent, was half-watching TV in his tattered armchair while the monotonous laughter of sitcoms filled the small living room. Since his wife had died seven years ago, his…

The first knock on the door felt innocent enough, but as more neighbors arrived at our housewarming party, things took a strange and eerie turn. Every single one of them wore the…

group of civil rights organizations announced Sept. 5 they are challenging a lawsuit by the Republican Party, which seeks to deem 225,000 registered voters in North Carolina ineligible to vote. The lawsuit…

Ever wondered if your neighbors are from another planet? These side-splitting tales will have you convinced! Get ready for laughs so loud, you might just wake up the whole block! Dive into…

My eight-year-old stepdaughter Jessy called me late one night in a panic, pleading with me to pick her up from her dad’s place and, most importantly, not to tell her mother. I…

Linda thought she had left her painful past behind, but when her twin daughters started coming home unusually quiet, she couldn’t shake the feeling that something was terribly wrong. Little did she…

Greetings, friends. Allow me to tell you about Anne, my daughter, who seems to be going insane. She believes that I should be sent to a nursing home like an old piece…

The man Mom and I loved to the core tore our hearts apart and abandoned us when I was 13. Ten years later, I pulled over for a hitchhiker, only to see…