They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.
Police arrested a man on suspicion of child abuse after doctors found a small octopus in the throat of his girlfriend’s two-year-old s…
It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers