Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

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

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a