He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
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.
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted
Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month