It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,
What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,