Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...