Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to

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.

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

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