My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
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.
Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer
Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,
