When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

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

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.

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

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...