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Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
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
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old