Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop
It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...
If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
Universal salvation claims everyone goes to Heaven and no one goes Hell. Highly controversial. The auditorium was packed
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back