Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

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

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day