Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

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

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

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

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

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