There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.
In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.
It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.
Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings
The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....
Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses