The boy came down his street and saw a ladder leaning against a house, but he did not see anybody on the ladder or on the roof of the house.

The argument took place in front of the whole forest crowd, the hawk and the eagle exclaiming their talons were the sharpest in the world, the quickest and could hold more in one grasp than any other pair of talons, or the clutch of any animal in the forest.

Every workday morning two men met at the bus stop in their
neighborhood.

Those in the know say it was a miracle in the offing, this turnaround of John Caliber who wanted to be a poet

The mother jackal living in the hills above Sagamore Splits, a summer camping area for people of the city-life, left her newborn to get food.

The lawyer came out of his house after a noisy storm and hearing the wind blowing hard all night. He noticed for the first time the way a huge tree was leaning. With another storm forecast by the weather experts, he was afraid that the tree would fall on his house.
He looked in the Yellow [...]

A big man in his own right, massive across the shoulders, Chester, even as a dreamer of large proportions, was given to talking to his father long gone down the pike, from a runaway case of pneumonia, to better pasture.

The only heirloom my grandmother had was her pearl necklace, a gift from grandfather, a piece of property she clung to during the Depression and years that followed.

It was so darn petty that not one person in the family really knew how or where or when the rift began.

This story can begin anywhere; back there, up here, at the site of the Double-NN ranch, on the dusty roads beyond the ranch, with any one of the characters caught up by the presence of the colt, by the colt itself that caused the uproar.