Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

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

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

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

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

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

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.