Showing results for "Jimmy" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Chip's luck has run out. He's been on the dole for most of his life and now the government wants to ship him off to fight in the never-ending war in Mexico. But he has two things going for him: a cocky attitude and his thinkmate, an all-knowing personal digital assistant named Mr. Jimmy. Maybe the way to escape is to get in line to step through the mysterious door down the alley. Hundreds of people have passed through, but no one has come out.

"Jimmy and the Desperate Woman" tells the improbable story of an intellectual editor persuading a working woman to live with him. We would say now "on the rebound" from a failed marriage, but Lawrence crosses the class divide and poses questions about what makes us attracted to other people. The intellectual twists and turns of the magazine editor contrast nicely with the stark honesty of the spurned miner husband.

A comedy about a professional couple who decide to get a divorce—just for the fun of it!

A comedy about a businessman forced to marry his secretary, who really loves him!

A musical romance of Depression show business.

Robert Commings reprises his 1948 film role as a harried advertising executive in this comedy about business and romance.

A comedy about a man trying to get his wife (whom he hasn't seen in seven years) to give him a divorce.