He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...