They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.
Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer
We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings
