Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

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

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand