"Benny," I said, in a whisper-shout because court would be in session at any moment. "Yeah." Gruff and manly, that's how I like them. Not…

Hands I have held and loved Take the grounds into the filter and hand me the cup Knowing how you take it and you need…

Words. Words, words, words! Hamlet exclaims. He is annoyed with not only the superficiality of what people say, but the betrayal of those words as…

I've eaten my whole plate. Like my mother told me to do back when I was four. When making dinner last night, I looked into…

Near my home is a large,empty field. A few tall weeds have broken through the dirt and probable tarmac beneath. It won’t be empty for…

I’m never at a loss for words. Since i got into the habit of writing in journals, filling many invitingly blank white pages, when i…

It was only a wisp,” Marnie said. “But I felt it.” “A wisp,” her husband said. He’d repeated her word, but his glance was skeptical.…

I run away from home almost every day. Well, I trot or walk away from home. I don't run. I began a new work schedule…

Alexander sat on the mangled remains of the stolen carriage and listened to the silence. At least the quarrel would be ended, though he desperately…

Trooper Proctor took the stand, and everything about him was wrong. His oblong face was marked by anger—not that he seemed particularly angry at this…

Much to say about the word "wisp".....short for "whisper" immediately comes to mind...which brings further to mind the idea that if you want to get…

I both like and love The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Not because I read it in high school, when it was assigned. I…