The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two
I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.
Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
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...
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose
It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way
