You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.
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,
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
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…