When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

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…