After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

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…

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.