It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where
If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
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...
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk