They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.
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…
It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has
With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly