The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…

Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.