He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

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

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

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

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

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen