Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

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.

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

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.

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...

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line