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 ...

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

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

Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room