In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother