Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room

Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…

Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle