I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

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…

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…

How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.

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

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,