Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick
