If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

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

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

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 ...

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...