Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why
You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know
The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...
Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford