It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.

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

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls