Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport