They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
On a sunny day in Harvard Yard blonde from Norway weds son of chieftain from Rwanda after
Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but
Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
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.
The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian