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...
I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
Fred jerks back in his recliner as his wife puts him on the spot and asks his opinion about a dress she bought on sale at a fancy place for a great price…
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
The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she
The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.
He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening