A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

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

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there