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Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
Please tell me if I’m right about what you just told me. You say he came to Earth, died for me, rose from the dead
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
“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
If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.
Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
