The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner
Phil doesn’t go to church but after midnight he enjoys watching preachers on TV swing their bibles in the air, march across the stage, yell
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.
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,
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out
