After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport
Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.