After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

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

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.

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.