Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.