Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

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...

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth