It was after midnight by a mile when I slid off the bar stool at O’Malley’s and began to walk home. O’Malley’s is an old Irish pub and though I wasn’t Irish, nor did I drink like a lot of other newspa...
I'm one of the two people left on the planet who doesn't own a cell phone and doesn't want one.
Man was but an echo, thought Wyn with some awe, a small memory of rocks and mountains and rivers and lakes that had always been, and always would be. Man would come and go, but the land was forever.
I pulled out some folded-over pictures of US Presidents. I knew how to talk to bellboys.
But for those women too stubborn to accept their part in the failure, it would always be his fault for being a jerk, not theirs for being attracted to jerks. Anger would eventually turn to bitterness...
Hearing the same shows I had listened to with the other girls at the orphanage kept me connected to them in my heart. It was a comfort knowing that back home — my old home — they were listening to the...
No one was more curious and excited about other cultures and peoples than Caroline. She sometimes still remembered facts about cultures, ancient secrets and rituals, sites of ruins that excited her wh...
We were in those dark early days of the war at the time, and the outcome was very much in question. Lake's appearance at the event was a morale booster for civilians and servicemen alike. She was stan...
Suddenly hungry, I waved a goodbye to my new friend and headed for the open road once more. I slid in an old radio cassette and enjoyed a Jack Benny Christmas show. I was among the living again. It wa...
Maybe the pictures are all black and white because things were black and white then, Nick. I knew exactly what she meant. There was a moral center then, and you could feel it still here in Grover's Cr...
It’s difficult to explain, but Henry and my aunts were cut from the same cloth. In some small way, having this time with Henry, before I became a woman always looking over her shoulder, was almost lik...
Value-wise, Crystal Falls still had theirs. It was American heartland conservative. There were three churches in Crystal Falls, all of them well-maintained and fully attended every Sunday. Of course,...
What happened on that tiny island off the coast of Cuba called Flowering Cay at times seems like a half-remembered dream, one of those groggy remembrances that you’re never quite certain you didn’t ju...
Jennifer and Mark were a reminder that they weren’t all a lost cause. It was just a shame they were in such a minority group. Maybe they could start a movement: Decent People’s Lives Matter. It could...
San Francisco is still the loveliest city in the world for my money, despite how they've tried to ruin her. Yeah, it attracts all the weirdos, and some of them aren't harmless like they used to be in...
It was raining hard the evening Holly died. One of those summer rains that seem to come from nowhere and catch all but the most compulsively weather-conscious off guard. She was beautiful, Holly, and...
Mrs. Atwater will see you now. She spoke in a tone which conveyed her disappointment, but her smirk indicated the pleasure she’d derived from startling me. We stood there a second or two before I real...
What a magnificent girl. She is spring, in all its glory. He shook his head. I have seen and done so much, my friend, I wonder if I will ever experience spring again. Perhaps I am too far into autumn...
Wyn could never understand why men expected to do the most dangerous work there was, the maintaining of law and order, were paid the least. People expected things to be kept peaceful, but when it came...
But what the mind understands and what the heart believes are not always in sync.
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