Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

We have a drop-off problem in Ame… We must decide which restroom one can use when nature beckons. So far, tumult reigns among the pe… If we declare both genders equal

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.