a senryu
It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with
It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until
Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”
An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level
She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.