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…
“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,
Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney
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,
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
how does one handle nude on the beach extremities starfished almost asleep how does one handle
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city