Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

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

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,