Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon
It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back
Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…