You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go
Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
In England they call it moving house packing everything going someplace else bigger better
Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
