We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs
More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore
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.
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.
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
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney