Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

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

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

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

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought

Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays