A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

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...

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers