A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

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...

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

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