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The ancient man with raspberry hives on his cheeks since childhood will live alone
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
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...
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
Herb remembers when he was young he’d go to the doctor and complain about aches and pains and sniffles… Now he’s up in years and still goes to the doctor but never
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
