For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
Let’s check the terminal and see what jobs might be available to match your skill set, the interviewer said. The young man
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in