Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb