Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.

Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined