Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
