After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they

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...

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

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

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

When a writer lacks verbs and nouns he’s the victim of writer’s block. His mind may house

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

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

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