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...

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

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 ...

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice