I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

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

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

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...

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney