Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

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

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

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.

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

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