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New Driver on an Old Route

New Driver on an Old Route

by | Nov 2, 2014 | D, Donal Mahoney, Short Story

According to the anchor on the News at Six, Olaf Parker was shot dead at dawn this morning delivering newspapers in his van. His body was found on the front seat, a cigarette burning near his feet, when police responded to a call from a resident who heard his van...

Henry Showed Wendy His Paintings

by | Apr 4, 2014 | D, Donal Mahoney, Short Story

Henry and Wendy Throckmorton had been married a week when Henry took Wendy to his garret 100 miles south of their estate in posh Kenilworth, a suburb of Chicago. Wendy thought she was going on a delayed honeymoon. Henry had never told her that he was a painter by...

The Hell of Agent Orange

by | Mar 7, 2014 | D, Donal Mahoney, Short Story

“Throw me down the stairs a sandwich, Ollie, I’m hungry,” said Dr. Olga Sumvitch, hollering up to me from Hell again in her best fractured English. ++++Although she had spent the last 30 years of her life in the United States working for Monsanto,...