Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.
This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,
