A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they