No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

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...

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

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 widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…