Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
On a sunny day in Harvard Yard blonde from Norway weds son of chieftain from Rwanda after
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
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...
