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Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon
The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they
Please tell me if I’m right about what you just told me. You say he came to Earth, died for me, rose from the dead
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
