I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree
Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
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
Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails