Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

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

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books