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

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

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.

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

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

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.