After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
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...
You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…
Find the book and blow the dust off. It’s somewhere in the house.