Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea
Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...
I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian
If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.