Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

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…

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…