Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.
He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls
This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…
When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...
