Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

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.”

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...