Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

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

There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

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

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

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...

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

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

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney