When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

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

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…