Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.