Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
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…
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because