In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
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…
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney