I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
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
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
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
It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…