Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.
Please tell me if I’m right about what you just told me. You say he came to Earth, died for me, rose from the dead
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
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying