Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
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
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
