July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick
The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children
You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture
Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie