I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

“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

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job