Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.
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.
America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...