The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick