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Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
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.
Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants
It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar
Herb’s wife says the grass needs cutting and Herb agrees. She says the neighbors are upset he hasn’t cut it for the last five weeks.
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl
He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree
Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney