MARIO KIEFER

Have you ever tried to reach a government office by phone? Specifically, have you ever tried to speak to a live person at the IRS? Let me...

The alarm went off at 7:00 a.m. jarring me from my slumber. Usually, I do not use an alarm choosing instead to allow the warmth of the...

The man looked up to the sky where he new that the moon, while not quite full, hung overhead. His rational mind argued that it was the...

I sat in my car outside of the little market. I wanted to go in, but I had forgotten my mask, and I knew that if I walked into the store...

I remember that day in 1973 like it was yesterday, although it was almost fifty years ago. On that Saturday morning, my brothers and I...

The fight started innocuously enough — they usually did. They were fighting over that stupid doll; the one that Gam-Gam gave them for...

I stood watching the crowd that ringed the mid-town building not far from the delicatessen where I often had my lunch. As the man who...

He sat up in bed and swung his legs over the side. He sat this way for what seemed a decade before he pushed his body (a body that grew...