It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…
Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...
Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
