It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

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

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife