Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

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

When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

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...

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…