Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
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
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.
If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
When a writer lacks verbs and nouns he’s the victim of writer’s block. His mind may house
Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.
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
