He had always been the wrong kind-of-citizen, so Tony was not surprised when they arrested and held him for deportation. What did surprise Tony was the number of good citizens the police had rounded up in their recent city-wide sweep. Many were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when picked up, often…

My Cousin Elmo says, “If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes journalism.”

He’d been warned not to go into the old mansion, but Daryl didn’t listen. He was itching to confront whatever the thing was that left people scared. Armed with a thick bible and a wooden crucifix, he entered, intent on learning the secrets of the dilapidated house. Soon Daryl found himself cornered in a hallway…

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford wants a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed after the November election that claims voter rolls contain ineligible names and that illegal aliens cast ballots. The state attorney general also said in the motion that the lawsuit wrongly identifies Nevada’s secretary of state as the official in charge of…

Not only did Barney and Rat work in the same department, but the two Airmen were also housemates, living off base. Between the two of them, Barney had the only working car, a 1972 Nova. After a 14 hour day, Barney was behind the wheel, pushing down the gas pedal, flying through the long loping…

that is me a 6-year-old boy riding the bicycle with training wheels staring at an old man with white hair on his face sitting alone in the cafe i had never noticed before, and having a profound feeling of I don’t know what. that is me a 60-year old man sitting alone in the cafe…

Time to put down some thoughts truths maybe not me not till later another zit I’m too old to be getting zits shake the mental cobwebs loose Internets slow again they’re choking it down neighbor has fired up his truck it’ll run for thirty minutes now the sheets are already dry I jus’ put them…

One day, when my son was four or five years old, we were heading somewhere in town when we came up behind an enclosed cattle truck. Back then, there were no car seat laws or laws demanding that you keep your little one in the back seat of your vehicle. I side-eyed him as he…

My Cousin Elmo says, “Lost the pizza slicer, so I’m using an old Bryan Adams CD. Cuts like a knife.”

I was trying to outrun myself. Tooling along near the Arizona-New Mexico line on I-40, it was approaching nighttime, the sun setting behind me. And since I couldn’t find a music station, I had resigned myself to listening to a radio preacher sermonizing on John 21:17… When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon…