She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met
Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up
It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the
They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
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...