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Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that
Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees
There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room
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,
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine
Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people