First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat
Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
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
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.