When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney