Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat
Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…