If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
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.
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney