Tag: expectations

  • What One Expects of a Fortune Cookie

    I like my fortune cookies to contain fortunes. It seems like a necessary part of the deal. Being in the name. That’s what I expect: a fortune. That’s also what I want. I take a moment, thinking of what I am in most need of, and crack open the cookie. Sometimes I don’t get a…

  • Fooling Expectations

    Suspense in action By the time the car pulls off the lot and drives down the road, I was more terrified than I had ever been by a movie. The beginning of Psycho had my guts wrestling my fast-beating heart for room in my throat. And yet nothing scary has happened yet at that point…