His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.