You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.
In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…