An abridged version of “Fifty-Pence for the Meter” was broadcasted on BBC Radio 4 as part of their Short Works...
Someone, or something, was stealing Jopson’s apple-blossom. Three small apple trees in pots stood on his front path. A supermarket...
This is the beginning two chapters of Beth Kephart’s novel CLOUD HOPPER, which follows three good friends and two immigrant...
Roger Conroy rolled up in his Volvo. Laura was on the swing beneath the dead tree reading a paperback Amish...
Sheets of rain slice your face. From this distance, you should be able to see Salthill’s bars and restaurants but...
The dog had been missing since morning. It was getting late in the day, but I still wasn’t too keen...
Rhona started leaving nearly every night after Aonghas was asleep, like she had the night The Silence had begun. There...
What comes up from underground? The youngsters would ask when starting their long journey to the ritual grounds. Their hooved...
It was a wild summer. As soon as school closed, Wee Stevie went into hospital for surgery, and then his...
‘The wind was fierce last night, wasn’t it?’ ‘Yeah. I thought the windows were going to blow in on top...
Yumi sat crossed-legged on the floor. She had spread out onto the carpet an ugly lime green table cloth that...
This is the beginning of Colin’s novel The Virtues of Destruction, now available on Amazon. * Hidden within one sharp and brooding...