We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building