Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

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.”

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear