Humorous Fiction: Old Lady Trouble by Mark Tulin/Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles

Honored to be in the cutting-edge Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles #20. Page 75. But read the others, too.

At first, I thought she was a Miss Lonely Hearts—an
old woman desperate for any kind of company, no matter
how she got it. But I should have known she’d be trouble
the first day she moved in. Her name was Chatty Kattinski,
but I called her Chatty K. for short. She was from
Tennessee and had once been married to a roofer named
Leon, who fell off a roof and never recovered. Some say
he ended his life so he wouldn’t have to hear Chatty’s voice...
Excerpt from "Old Lady Trouble"