They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.

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…

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

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...

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…

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

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

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...