There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
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...
A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,
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.
Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up
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
He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
