You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...
A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...
I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.
