They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
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
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make
