Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be
It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather
A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food
Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.
I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney
It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married