After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on
A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.
