Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...
Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids
Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able
He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,