After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone
Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.
Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again
Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the
It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
