Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

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

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.