The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
Being bipolar isn’t easy but it’s tougher when you’re poor and have to walk rather than ride
Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.
Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
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
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
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
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother