An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.

He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother