Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

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