I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney