Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…