She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...
The problem is, Priscilla grew up in a penthouse having parties whil… Biff came of age under a bridge fighting other trolls, he remember… When Pris calls his office and sa…
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…