The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register
If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,
I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,
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...
Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…
Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,
Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…
Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college
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
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...