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Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
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…
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted
Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
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 ...
I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
