Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building