You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

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

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across