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

Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. 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.

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney