A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
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...
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman
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…
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
