The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

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...

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

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