A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

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

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…