I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job