Tag: donal

A Good Customer I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear  in Alaska, hook Tarpon  in Florida, golf in Scotland. He had it all planned. Nothing would stop him.   Months later I learned doctors said he had cancer of the blood. The outlook was bleak. I called Al and he said six months, […]

The Widow Next Door   Every Saturday  when the sun is out and it’s hotter than Hades   Monica next door  raises her garage door early in the morning    and leaves it up  long past noon as if  Herm will walk out   at any minute  oily and greasy needing to clean up     the way he used to  every Saturday […]

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage. All their kids were doing well  and had nice families of their own   but tragedy struck one dawn before  Willie had had his morning coffee. Millie was on her third cup and Willie said Millie looked at him the wrong way   and Willie asked, “What’s that look all about, Millie, what did I do now?” […]

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank  of elevators, the doors opening  and closing as if by metronome.   Every time a door opened a voice called the names of 12 zombies who boarded the elevator single file. As the doors closed, Led Zeppelin  or Bing Crosby played in the background depending on whether the […]

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store, at the post office. They can’t find their money, if they have any. They’re never in a hurry. They have nowhere to go and you’re always in line behind them, a busy man with people to see, appointments to keep, deadlines to meet. You try to […]