I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney
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...
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,
I don’t know the answer but perhaps the Dalai Lama knows the final resting place of pygmies who live in jungles unexplored and never hear a sermon from
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.
It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin
You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know