A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...
The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I
I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted
Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.
They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
On Sundays Walter gives Pastor J… magazines to read along with comments on his sermons. The pastor loves the magazines but Walter is leaving for another…
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
