It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections

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

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.