The old man sat on a stool and leaned against the aged bar. He was a cliche'. The broken down seventy year old still looming large over his domain which was a little bit further than he could reach. He…

It is 1967 and a lanky man in brown pants, no shoes, a well worn stripped button-down shirt, and an out of place new light blue canvas fedora on the back of his head sits in a desolate and nearly…

Jon was born in 1887 in the usual way a seven pound, fair skinned, blond haired, blue eye boy of European immigrants; his father one generation removed from the homeland and his mother only a few years new to a…

She was surely grand. Born matronly, raised to be a respite, a place of healing, taking into her bosom the sick and the tired to offer peace, only to end up a tool of the devil taken to hell in…

Ireland and Scotland are both morning the death of hundreds of children who drowned nearly two hundred years ago. Though Ireland did not lose any children in the mishap, they morn in sympathy with their brethren. It all began in…

First darkness then light. First a deep blue, then lightening to magenta, then amber over the still blue peaks with wisps of morning fog in the valley like the sleep in her eyes at first obscuring then clearing as the…

Marty Smartypants is a very smart man. He knows this because his mamma told him so, his grandma told him so, his teachers have told him so, his school principle has told him so, he was tested every year and…

Once upon a time, there was a moose who laid an egg. not just any egg, but a Fabrege egg. It was a very fine egg trimmed with gold, jewels, and rarities the world has never seen. The problem is…

God hates gossips. People do too. This is self-evident. Or it seems. So why do people gossip and what values can we learn? Gossip is where someone who talks about another without their presence. No one would say that a…