By day I used to walk along these same gravely paths, the solitary rustling sound of the stones was a harmony to my ears. Now I travel...

It felt like love. It’s always easy to look back on things and say it wasn’t love. Like water stains that cloud the shine of a glass, it...

Eddie watched the trolley being emptied and the groceries slowly snaking their way along the belt. The woman was about his mother’s age,...

The process began when the hand left his chest. Ever so gentle. It was not forceful, but there was malice. The hand, soft as it was, left...

Sorry officer, I can’t stop, I’ve got a deadline to meet. The full beam of the headlines cut through the deep darkness, lighting up the...

It was hard to put an age on Jake. Sitting tall in the saddle, unshaved, and sweaty, he swept a layer of grime and dust from his...

This was her sixth time on a plane, she had travelled twice before for funerals. When death came for her house it seemed he did it...

The big day had finally arrived. The day I was to become a dad for the first time. It was surreal. How could I be a dad? I wasn’t even a...

My Mam always comes to see me on a Saturday. It’s always been that way. My Da never tells me much about why they don’t live together,...

-And you’re certain the Gold Award is out of our reach? -Considering where we are right now, most definitely. It was news Eric knew...

In the months leading up to the destruction of Flaherty’s pub, Mossy Brennan spent his nights in fitful pockets of sleep. It was...

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone out of the heart she muttered, reading from the book on the kitchen table. She picked it up, noting...

A grey, damp mist hung heavy over the old bog road. The autumnal smell of chimney fires lingered in the air. Despite the miserable...

Let me tell you about Vince. Vince always had problems with his phone. The main problem being that he’d get his uncle Brian to fix it...

There she was: admiring herself in front of the irregular and broken mirror. The Witch was feeling good, dressed up and almost ready to...

What use was an aircraft leasing accountant to Cill Dara Milk and Butter Creamery? No use at all was the considered grapevine view....

Two liebres hop out on the track ahead of me. I stare up the gradual ´Subida´, cut through the pine forest like a well cut cake. The...

Sean stretched his hands as far as he could into the darkness, first one way, then the other. Nothing. The cold air of the space hit him...

In a Madrid hotel room in 2005 my mother, through the bathroom door, offered directions as to how to operate the shower. In response, I...

I am walking on the bones of the dead. I feel their cheekbones and jaws cracking beneath my Converse; deep beneath the recently...