a haiku
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but
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
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond
Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three