What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family

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 ...

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

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.

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

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

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse