Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan

He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat