I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam
Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Let’s look at him from his point o… living as he does in a penthouse on top of a building bearing his n… riding an elevator down a few floo… to an office where he oversees
Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
