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Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...
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…
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
