Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

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...

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

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

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...