In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

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

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

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

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.