“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
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…
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…
This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement