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.
“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
Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house