Following a grandson’s visit, Dot got a phone call.

“Did you get frustrated and yell at Dad?” her daughter asked.

“Regarding his hearing aid, I may have raised my voice to ask whether he wanted me to change his batteries.”

“That explains it! Sammy thinks his grandpa is a robot.”

John H. Dromey’s short fiction’s been published in Mystery Weekly Magazine and over one-hundred-fifty other venues.