You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

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

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.