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Fiction: Brotherly Love

Fiction: Brotherly Love

(Originally submitted for the RTE short story competition) Richard would never forget the look on Coster’s face as he fell. The shock of despair, of hope turned to devastation.  They had been inseparable in their youth, so much so that people often asked who was the older brother. Richard’s more robust build and freckled face complemented Coster’s sleeker, paler features.  Coster’s family lived a few streets away but he seemed to spend very little time there. Or at least, in…

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Fiction: What Gets Left Behind

Fiction: What Gets Left Behind

(Originally published here) It was a hard thing, being dead. Watching the rise and fall of the seasons without the heat of the sun on your face or the chill of a winter storm. Seeing the world change in flashes and cutscenes but with time standing still. Growing attached to the people living in your house (he always thought of them as lodgers) only to find them suddenly grown or gone. Most of all, Art just felt so very, very…

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Fiction: Life for a Life

Fiction: Life for a Life

(Originally published here) Conway stood with the other parishioners, a thick crowd pressing in on each other and reeking of ostentatious piety and desperation. The decrepit church wasn’t the biggest, but droves forced their way in from Carey’s Lane every Sunday. A man six feet away was coughing as if his life depended on it, and maybe it did. Cholera had ripped through Cork a little more than ten years ago, carrying away thousands, including three of Conway’s children. Now…

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Fiction: A scene

Fiction: A scene

[Every now and again scenes from stories pop into my head, though I have not written them up as I should have, convincing myself that I will eventually have time to flesh them out into something more solid. I’m getting over that, scribbling out scenes which may come to nothing but which need to get out of my head one way or the other. This was handwritten at about 4am one day, it is presented here unedited] Isaac felt the…

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