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Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good
It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.
He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…
Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard