Review of May 2014's Glass Door Reading Series
Having the babysitter arrive early, Freddy and I began our night out at Ricky's, a sports lounge next door to the event's location, Koffee Cafe. Over half-off pints, we discussed my most current short story and he helped me with some of the finer points of a character's drug overdose. A firefighter/EMT (soon to be paramedic), my husband is a wealth of information - a writer's (this writer's!) dream. At 6:30 we headed next door to the Koffee Cafe, a small coffee shop ran by a friendly family who possess the world's best Thai chicken soup recipe (the spicy, creamy masterpiece is perfectly paired with a glass of their house red). Our evening's host, Robin Young, and his wife, Lorraine, greeted us as soon as we walked through the door. Obviously natural fixtures in the arts community, the couple is endlessly supportive and enthusiastic. During my reading I noticed they held hands, Lorraine reaching over the table to experience the story with Robin. Tender, in-