The short story should entertain for anything between fifteen and fifty minutes and it can be about whatever you like.

Mrs. Farbman was ... one of those men in women's clothing ... The masculine jacket that she wore had its pockets full of papers. She was always producing a fountain pen from the centre of her masculine bosom and taking innumerable little notes in pocket-books, writing them down with an air of finality as though it were the day of judgment ...

Old Mrs Bolitho is a simple cook, but you get so hungry here that you really don't want Carlton fare.

[Bathing] We don't wear no cloes in this place. There's only old Mrs. Bolitho and she'm over eighty and 'alf blind anyway.

... breathless from one of the wildest of the country dances, I saw ... The old fiddler played for his life, and Mrs Bolitho, who should have been in bed long since, tears of pleasure running down her furrowed cheeks, clapped her hands and beat time with her feet.