Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

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

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

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

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...

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...