The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up
Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him
It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about
The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,
After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
My grandson whispers the morning dew sparkles like diamonds in the grass. Donal Mahoney