A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until
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
After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t