It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.
