It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

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

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

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

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…

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...