He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

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,

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.”

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

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

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar