In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
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…
Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement
We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
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
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.
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…
A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.