Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

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

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.