She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

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

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

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

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,