It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.
It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
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.
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door