Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out

Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

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

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

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...