She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers
She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills
Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
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...