The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold
On Sundays Walter gives Pastor J… magazines to read along with comments on his sermons. The pastor loves the magazines but Walter is leaving for another…
Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy