She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard