You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...