Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.