Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.
You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year
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...
It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…