Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up
The problem is, Priscilla grew up in a penthouse having parties whil… Biff came of age under a bridge fighting other trolls, he remember… When Pris calls his office and sa…
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...