Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.