Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

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

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…