She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

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

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

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…