The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

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

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,