Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree