A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…
Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…
If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be
Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...
Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.