Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife