https://www.kindstory.org publishes short stories about extraordinary everyday exchanges
https://www.kindstory.org/ I have a story on this site, Caroline Leavitt has one featured that's very good. Site is a small way to counter all the reportage focussed on the reverse of kindness. Adds an experience people might not think about a lot, the exchange of small or large kindness. What does it mean? Anyway here's mine. Leavitt's worth reading on site. SW A guy sits in a folding chair that's chained to a traffic sign, reading. His gloved hands hold a shallow cardboard box containing a book. His hooded face leans down, totally concentrated; a private act on this popular downtown corner. His battered sign says he's in the beginning stages of a debilitating disease. Yet he has good color. His clothes look okay, his eyes sparkle behind thick glasses when he talks about books. A couple feet from his chair is a food wagon. Construction workers, arrayed on the sidewalk, wait for coffee, Danish, egg sandwich on a bagel. I break the line with my water p...