There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

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

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

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