“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.
It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
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
Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...
