There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

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

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,