Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others