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…
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
In England they call it moving house packing everything going someplace else bigger better
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...
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.
If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
