Day IV This is a continuing special report from the Intercontinental Radio News. At forty-one minutes before eleven o’clock, central time, an un-named official in Washington confirmed that terrorist Osama Bin Laden was entering his fourth day of interrogation at the Supermax facility in Colorado….
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She was always called Birdy. The nickname arose partly from her looks. But, it also was because of her nervous ways. She flitted. No other word came close. Again this morning she was especially anxious. Every few minutes she looked through the screen of the…
He got up and cut the TV off. Nothing to see. He went out back to check on the dog. Ol’ Scotty still wasn’t eating much. It had been a week now and he still just lay there. “You probly gone up ‘n die on…
He had hunted here hundreds of times. These woods became his in grade school. He knew he would never leave them for long. The fading light added a quietness to the first chill of the coming winter. Now almost an after work ritual, these short…
Sometimes I want things to happen a certain way and they don’t. I get upset and frustrated and can’t get out of it. I want to but I just can’t do it. My mom says take a breath. Calm down. I just can’t get out…
He flipped the television on again. The cable box showed the time in big red numbers. Three-thirty-eight. He knew that there wasn’t anything to watch at this ungodly hour, but the noise and flickering images made him feel better. He thought about that for a…
I know I’m one of the only Chicagoans paying attention to the Stanley Cup finals this year – and maybe one of the few Americans outside of Boston – but I can’t help it. Hockey is the only sport that grabs my full attention anymore….
He knew his mother would be very angry. How could he have lost a single brand new loafer? His heart was still racing. He was still trying to think of what he could have done different. He knew that everyone on the bus was pointing…
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The woods were buzzing with cicada song.
She rearranged the refrigerator again. It seemed almost impossible to keep the foot wide space in the center of the refrigerator clear of all food and containers from top to bottom. She kept telling the kids that the air couldn’t get through and that would cause the motor to quit working. She read all about it in the manual the day it was delivered. Still, kids never paid any attention.
She swept the yard every Saturday. The hard packed red clay had been swept so many times that the roots of the big oak were nearly a foot above the flat ground and snaked thirty feet down beside the house. It was easier work today….