Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

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

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

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…

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...