Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

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

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

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

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

After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher