A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

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