Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

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

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner