Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,
After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have
World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused