She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have
Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...
It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…
