The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

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

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

A refugee from another country tel… people thrive on proving their bel… more than understanding one anothe… They will let a stereotype fall on… like a cheap dress as long as it f…

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him