Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

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

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...