She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.