Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.