Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

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.

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

“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

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants