Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

The weather report the night before said a foot of snow maybe more, heavy and wet.

Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11