Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
Find the book and blow the dust off. It’s somewhere in the house.
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.