Author Larry Gross is offering up a "word stew" of sorts-in his words, a mishmash of stories. Some of the stories are fiction, some are real life and some are a mixture of both. The subject matter varies and covers a wide variety of topics-all the way to a troubled neighbor cutting herself to Gross actually getting stuck inside an elevator. It covers silly visits to Walgreens and stray cats in the neighborhood where he lives. One story talks about...