One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.
I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on
He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls
She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
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...
The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about