Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,
Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn
