I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

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

Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

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

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…