If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

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...

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

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

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,