They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

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.

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails