He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

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

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

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...