Tag: mahoney

Answering Machine   My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.   And I say that’s because after all these years we both know whenever the phone rings in the middle of the night, someone we know, maybe   someone we love, has […]

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage. All their kids were doing well  and had nice families of their own   but tragedy struck one dawn before  Willie had had his morning coffee. Millie was on her third cup and Willie said Millie looked at him the wrong way   and Willie asked, “What’s that look all about, Millie, what did I do now?” […]

Remembering His Third Wife   Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor  who preached from the pulpit.   That’s why whenever he thinks of his third wife, and he does almost daily, he never says anything bad.   Instead, he sends himself an email and records for history yet another  evil deed she managed to […]

A Puzzling Marriage   Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people.   All day long they hide their differences to make their marriage last but every night after supper they let them out silently.   Fred in his recliner works  a crossword puzzle while Daisy in the dining room works a jigsaw puzzle   but neither Fred nor Daisy  speaks a word until one has finished and howls […]

Plain Girl Pretty Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city after high school.   She worked nights  in a shanty diner next to a bar where working men gathered. Depending on how much the men had to drink Rose looked appealing but she ignored […]

Daily Paper on the Lawn   An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar tired from playing but willing to play a last set for me not knowing I read only sports and the obits two riffs in the paper anyone can believe Author Bio: Donal Mahoney lives […]

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store, at the post office. They can’t find their money, if they have any. They’re never in a hurry. They have nowhere to go and you’re always in line behind them, a busy man with people to see, appointments to keep, deadlines to meet. You try to […]

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up till bedtime where snoring was music in the night. His grandson told neighbors Gramps had Old-Timer’s Disease, an excellent diagnosis with which doctors agreed. It was time to move Gramps to a home so his wife began […]