Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

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.

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low