Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock