Lillian Clark

Cold Coffee

Gertrude was an unremarkable person in the way that most people are unremarkable. She wasn’t especially plain or pretty, tall or short, thin or heavy because she wasn’t especially anything. In most things, she simply was. As her mother used to say, “It’s called ‘average’ because that’s what most of us are.” Or, her dad, “Extraordinary people don’t make the world work.”