So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

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

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

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

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

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....