His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

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

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

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

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or