Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

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.

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

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.

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

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

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.