We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

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

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

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.