There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.
Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,