“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall
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.
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
My grandson whispers the morning dew sparkles like diamonds in the grass. Donal Mahoney
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day