Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.