When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn
The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,
Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three