You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

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

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

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