Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot