It was a day like the day before and the day after. The wind wrapped itself around the sod cabin in gusting moans as the pioneer family within carried...
Dogedog had always been very lazy, and now that his father and mother were dead and he had no one to care for him, he lived very poorly. He had little...
One very hot day, when a carabao went into the river to bathe, he met a shell and they began talking together."You are very slow," said the ...
The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed footb...
My husband brought our three young children down the long hall of the maternity ward, pausing to let them wave in each doorway at the new mothers cudd...
Less than a year after my wife’s funeral I was confronted with the most terrible realities of being a widower with five children.Notes from scho...
He was the president of a major advertising firm and I was a very young management consultant. I had been recommended to him by one of his employees w...
During my adolescent years I spent succulent summers at Bethany Beach, Delaware, body surfing, riding waves of hormones, pretending to be the man I wa...
Though somewhat younger, my wife and I attend a church that caters to senior citizens. We like it because of the traditional service and very friendly...
Many years ago, I read that James A. Michener, who did not publish until he was forty years of age, advised young writers to do extensive research bef...