I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

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.

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

They have a few bucks, the 62 richest billionaires in the… The Big 62 have half as much weal… as the bottom half of the world’s… according to Oxfam International.