Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way
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…
That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something
You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then
Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney
I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there