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

Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney