As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport
You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin
It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us