Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

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...

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

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.

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do