There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

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,

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…