Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh