I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.