A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,
More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
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
Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…
First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat
