A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”
Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…
Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers
Let’s look at him from his point o… living as he does in a penthouse on top of a building bearing his n… riding an elevator down a few floo… to an office where he oversees
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example
I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager
As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down