The middle-aged black man was wearing a blue suit coat that was too big for him, worn around the cuffs, and missing a couple of button...

I spied the end of a sex transaction while walking to the coffee shop. As I rounded the corner from my street to the main artery, I saw ...

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams o...

Live, Travel, Adventure, Bless, and don't be sorry. -- Jack Kerouac  Live to tell the story; but make it interesting. - Me I miss the da...

Let us alone. What is it that will last? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. - Alfred Lord T...

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apple. - Sherwood Anderson Journalism without a moral position is impossible. -Marguerite Dur...

Flocking blackbirds foretell nothing except an early and colorless fall. Apples are rotting off the tree. This is not a year for walnuts. Sm...

I was drinking in a town I'd never heard of in a bar that I wasn't familiar with when I overheard a group of men talking down bar f...

The report was a staggering one; three counties over, in a little town no one had thought about since nobody remembered when, the entire tow...

1. Above all, make no waves and make no enemies unless you share the same ones as everyone else. 2. Go to church, even if you don't bel...

The Flying Man From Pin Hook By JJ Rafferty for The Arliss Star Advocate Pin Hook – Wallace Gimley has carried the same dream with him since...

T he best part of my day is walking out to the mail box because the neighbor lady watches me and wonders what a man my age is doing at home ...

A s she promenaded down the narrow Main Street sidewalk in her best outfit, Walter felt glamorous for the first time in her life. She was su...

I keep beer out on the covered front porch. It’s winter in Northwest Illinois and the relentless cold makes for great refrigeration. My wif...

W hen I saw the corpse, it looked like it had been out all in the cold. It was – or it had been, at any rate – a retriever mutt. Short hair....