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

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed

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

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

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

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl