Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…
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.
If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through
Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,
Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,