It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…