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Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she
The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
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...
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s