The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

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

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

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.