They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...