That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

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