Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him
So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
Being bipolar isn’t easy but it’s tougher when you’re poor and have to walk rather than ride
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.
No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
