No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…

Linda’s on TV this morning being interviewed by someone who specializes in interviewing unusual people. Linda’s a smart woman but

Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops