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

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...

Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.