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Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
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.
No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.
The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
