Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

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...

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.