Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

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

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

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...

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other