Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.
What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,
The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain
In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
This morning Len sections his bre… with the knife he bought in Paris… on his honeymoon. He bought it fro… at a street market selling every k… beautiful creations he said he mad…
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
