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New Directions (37)

By lunchtime my eyes felt like someone’d kicked sand in my face. Three hours of staring at my PC screen scrolling through hundreds of messages trying...
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If on a winter's night

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It was the stain on the kitchen wall and the new padlock that always stayed with Garda P.J. Crowe. How the metal gleamed from the pine shed door,...
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The Patrolman - 23

Taxi drivers who ‘do nights’ don’t need things spelled out to them.

Castrator.

The life of a castrato is an interesting one. The boys were castrated before their beautiful voices changed. This was done in Italy, so that they...
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Xion Island Carrier Chapter 14

The rain drew slow trails over Nash’s nerves like a jagged fingernail over skin. Barrow was under one of those relentless showers that made...
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Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 13

I am filled with hatred. And the thrill of impeccable timing. I couldn’t have planned Aunty Laura’s reckoning better, though the moment she stole the...
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Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 12

Nash stared through the one-way glass at James McAlister as the roast beef sandwich he’d wolfed down for lunch refused to settle behind his ribs. The...

Seventh Place

The horse’s neon hooves hammered against the glass track like gunfire. We tore above a sea of stars. The massive crowd was a blur, a rolling roar...