Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

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

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

“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 ...