Category: Fiction

  • ONE STEP FORWARD

    One year ago. “Hello! Hello! Yes Charles. Yes I can hear you now. I hope you are getting these pictures. This really is a remarkable moment.” The screen flickered and, woozily, the image became clearer. There was an empty stage, surrounded by rank upon rank of soldiers in brown uniforms. The soldiers weapons were lowered […]

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  • THE BABY WITH THE GOLDEN EYES

    Seamus panicked when he saw the tiny bundle in his wife’s arms. “What have you done?” he asked Maire. She stood in the doorway, calmly dipping a finger into the little font of holy water they kept on the hallway wall. She blessed herself and thee bundle. The light from outside spilt around her. She […]

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  • A BANSHEE SANG ON TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD TUBE STATION

    The banshee was waiting for me at the bottom of the escalator in Tottenham Court Road tube station. If I’d known what she was, I’d have run a mile. But I didn’t.

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