You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add