After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin
There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.
Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…