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Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
