On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me
Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
