I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted
I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made
The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people
Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.