Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

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’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…