He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia