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

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

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

Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.

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…

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

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…

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.