Michael O’Neill | The Sun Magazine

Michael O’Neill

Michael O’Neill is a full-time house painter and part-time writer, a situation he is trying to reverse. He lives in Philadelphia and is working on a collection of essays.

— From June 1994
Fiction

Vespers

Awkwardly, in fits and starts, the words came back to me.

Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee . . .

June 1994
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