Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…

That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.