Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,