They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.

Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.

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

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...