Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
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…
Police arrested a man on suspicion of child abuse after doctors found a small octopus in the throat of his girlfriend’s two-year-old s…
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,
Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad
Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…