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

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed