When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know
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.
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers
Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
