No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds
Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register
Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies
Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal
On a sunny day in Harvard Yard blonde from Norway weds son of chieftain from Rwanda after
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
