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

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

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

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

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

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving