I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people

The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.