The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
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
Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…
He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
