after going out to bid for a good or service and receiving submissions, shall consult with the legislative body of such municipality if such municipality provides or uses such good or service, and, if the equivalent level of such good or service is provided by such municipality or through...
into the piece, thought hard about the sentence, “My name, a begging blue prayer,” so sad… or was it so eager? It’s a strange, jumpy or settled? little story, a slice-of-life piece if the lamplight’s flickering and the TV screen keeps going to static and you’re not sure ...
Just past the cafeteria, there was the door that used to lead to the dingy outdated section of family hotel rooms in the Leed Tower (I don’t think that even exists anymore), where we rented a room for the first week until they had space for us in the Ronald McDonald House. I reme...
Wowed them awake, and together, we all high-five in the middle of the classroom. They all say thank you. For once, we teachers become the kings and queens of the building built to look like a mega church. For a second it was a perfect word, until I looked up from my own screen ...
er-do-wells and the drinkers of cheap wine. On a Sunday night there were a dinner party at the country club and a tryst at a roadside tourist cabin and a prayer meeting at the Lutheran Church and three drunks telling lies in the men’s room of the bus depot and a Negro child ...