Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.