Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,