Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana