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Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”
Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers
I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.
I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam
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…
Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall
Herb’s wife says the grass needs cutting and Herb agrees. She says the neighbors are upset he hasn’t cut it for the last five weeks.
