America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...