You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

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

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever