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Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.
Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand
You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs
