Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five