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...
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
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before
As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around
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...
The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she
The problem is, Priscilla grew up in a penthouse having parties whil… Biff came of age under a bridge fighting other trolls, he remember… When Pris calls his office and sa…
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes