Genres

Cat Revelation

By Drucilla Wall   I know a thing or two about cats, and that scrawny black skeleton with dirty socks, curled in an empty flower pot...

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The Vampire Squid

By Debbie Lim   Vampyroteuthis infernalis   Literally, from hell. Belling the vast dark with a cape of rusted tentacles. Dante...

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Railway Town

By Les Wicks   Where I grew up there was respect for the uniform. No one ever killed in them. Armed with timetables the wise station...

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Book Review: Kate Murdoch’s The Orange Grove

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “‘That is not true. I care about you, Céline. I care about the fact that my wife prostitutes herself for...

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The Wave That Never Came

by Amanda Pearson   We were told the world was ending. My parents, in their naivety, decided a picnic was the only way to celebrate...

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As If The Large Magellanic Cloud Looks Over Us

By Jill Jones.   Thursday was full moon     more than silvery when clouds parted     life is short    days are long you...

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Animate and full of spirits

By Owen Bullock   As the night, as the Chapel when you thought it housed a ghost. As the hedge where he lurked to scare you. Where the...

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Whipbird

By Marilyn Humbert   where mist blurs men and trees a call sharp as a shard cracks the valley breaking morning rituals   I listen...

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An Undertaker’s Son

By Daragh Byrne   In memory of Des Byrne   You would find him on a wet November Wednesday, sideways rain in New Abbey Filling the...

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The Driver

by Dell Brand. Commended story in the 2019 HNSA short story contest. Boney sat hunched over the wheel, clunking along slowly over the...

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Barbouruia Kalimantanensis

By J.W. Burns   Like some animal you get tired of your skin, want to sink to the bottom and just push life through the mud.   But...

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Root

By Angela T. Carr   I am not born. Doctors gas my mother and she baulks. Trees creep in, snake the delivery room. She wanders out of...

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Shona Blake Interview

by Nik Shone. About the artist: Shona Blake is a singer/songwriter/writer based on the west coast of Ireland. Her thoughtful prose has a...

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Revolution

By Sandra Renew   the revolution of 1863 Singer sewing machines and Butterick/Mc Calls patterns collected in Lever arch files  ...

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Brigadoon

By Owen Bullock   Clarence and Marion. The steep path to the door. The view of a distant ocean and near clay tips. High tea spread to...

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RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS

By Eamonn Wall   Today through field glasses I observe one small flock of red-winged blackbirds busy about the Audubon Center, the...

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Burren Wall

By Drucilla Wall   In summer the cattle graze the high patches made rich on limestone leaching into thin topsoil, rain generally...

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Floundering Falling Flying

by Eden van Leeuwen   Jumping up and down on the roof the metal banging in my ears the anthem to my tale. Sweat is blooming on my...

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GRANDMOTHER: AFTER SCHOOL

By Eamonn Wall   —the best teacher lives outside, the best teacher lives inside you, beating blood, breathing air, the best...

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At the Heart of Every Stone, A Bird

By Angela T. Carr   Nest of pebbles on the doorstep – a pagan offering, the work of small hands – its matted grass walls,...

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Bull Sharks

By Anthony Lawrence   In a river that still reeks of decay, in a time before the weir divided fresh from salt among mangroves that...

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Intact

By Anne Walsh   Visible in the wild wreck I am is the empire I was. My ruin is the most beautiful architecture. Wreckage has made me...

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After Hieronymus Bosch, perhaps.

by Peter Boyle.   Saint Germain des près, St Martins in the Fields — what are so many churches doing in the meadows? Why are...

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Moses

By J.W. Burns   hunched against the orange sky, a white horizon nibbling at his bowels. Far below, his sheep hungry, thirsty, horny to...

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The Divide

By Anthony Lawrence   While the other boys were drawing their guns and falling into the ruins of an open pavilion of sky and pines, I...

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Pathways to Gifts

By Hélène Cardona.   when my soul turned round, perceiving the other-side of everything…...

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Abercrombie Street

By Kristen de Kline,   + we loved like demons our kisses, fresh and fugitive we snorted lines as Cave wrestled skeleton trees crooned...

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The Colour Grey

By Bernadette Gallagher.   He talked of grey, of blue, purple and all the possible pigments that make up grey. He talked of trees, of...

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Eden (breaking free)

By Matthew M.C. Smith   Dream on a breeze of summer eve’s tree-dappled light Do not fear the advancing shadows Let Autumn storms...

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Threads Entwined

By Bernadette Gallagher   For John Philip   You came already formed a silken scarf blowing in the wind.   To unravel would...

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