“Anto, singing the night away and wobbling out the door at 1:30 to the fading holler of the barman Big Tim’s voice saying, ‘Come on, time to go home now gents and ladies, have yuh no homes to go to.’”
Tag: fiction
Posted inFiction
Pedestrian Crossin
“Mark’s halfway across when The Dude takes the corner goin at least 60. Which tells Mark that The Dude either . . .” A new short story from poet, author and editor Dave Lordan.
Posted inCulture Desk
Children’s Children by Jan Carson, Reviewed
In this short-story collection, Carson uses fantasy as a tool for getting at those truths that facts are too blunt for.
Posted inCity Desk
The Dubliner
When a young Silicon Docks worker finds himself in possession of a homeless man’s ragged Lidl bag, it triggers a series of events that lead him to see Dublin in a new light.
Posted inCity Desk
Phoenix Park
As a young man recovers in a Dublin hospital after a fight, he starts to develop some new interests.
Posted inCity Desk
The Deep Blue
In a Dublin launderette, a young mother sits with a ball of baby-grows and bibs at her feet when a man in a rumpled Superman costume stumbles through the door.
Posted inCity Desk
The Reluctant Superhero
Perhaps, sometimes, superpowers aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
Posted inCity Desk
Special Development Zone
In the outskirts of post-Celtic-Tiger Dublin, a single father drifts through the days, unable to find work, unsure of the future.
Posted inCulture Desk
Dinosaurs on Other Planets by Danielle McLaughlin, Reviewed
Fractured family relationships form the heart of this debut collection, eleven short stories shot through with moments of sadness, longing, and resignation.