After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

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