For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues
Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock