No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.