Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,