It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
Let’s check the terminal and see what jobs might be available to match your skill set, the interviewer said. The young man
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
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.”