Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.
Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
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,
I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers
He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.