Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

We have a drop-off problem in Ame… We must decide which restroom one can use when nature beckons. So far, tumult reigns among the pe… If we declare both genders equal

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

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

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on