Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,
Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…
Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him