We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin
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…
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian
Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,
When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past
Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made