Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
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.
Please tell me if I’m right about what you just told me. You say he came to Earth, died for me, rose from the dead
World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.
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.
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then
I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
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.
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
