The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother
Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,
It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in
Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
A spelunker he was from adolescence on. An outdoorsman with the best equipment exploring caves