Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.
The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by
Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps
The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
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