Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

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

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…

When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…