Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
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...
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.
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...
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.