A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,
Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it