When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

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...

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney