Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...