Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way