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When Two Killers Meet On a Street in Dublin, Who’ll Walk Away?
THE BONES & THE FLESH 1.1 — Where it all begins…
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The Long Way Home To Dublin
Part One Sara had let her guard slip. She had been thinking about home. She’d lived here since she was a teenager and hadn’t grown accustomed to celebrating Halloween in this heat. A Halloween without crows or bonfires in late spring heat. She was prepping the colcannon and the steaks. She remembered when curly kale couldn’t…
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THE GREAT HALT
Pete was the first to stand. Mr. Webster had given him a detention for something he didn’t do. The next day, Eddie joined. Then Mark. By spring, no one in town would sit.
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Hanging Out With His Corpse in the Middle of the Irish Sea
I sense Garraty’s automatic functions coming back online before I catch a flicker of his awareness returning. You know, while I’m driving a stolen yacht southwest off the coast of Dublin. For the craic of it, I guess.
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Eviction
‘Did you hear what happened at the Gallagher’s farm?’ Michael Confrey asked. ‘I heard tell that Tom died of a fever and that Nancy’s abed with nursing fever. Is that what you mean?’ Pat Earley replied. ‘There’s that. It’s Lord Leitrim that’s the problem.’ ‘What’s he done now? Haven’t we enough on our plates with…
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The Life Lesson in Purgatory That Brought Him Back From the Dead
Here so, as far as me despondent feckin’ Irish Catholic upbringing has brung me, purgatory’s pure shite, then, innit?
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-71. Shameful Trip to the Printer
I could smell the stranger. I’d gone to the director’s floor for a presentation. These walls hadn’t heard a joke in years. – My stomach dropped. The universe wobbled. For a second (an hour?), I heard only pulse in my ears. She was there. The stranger that stole my office. She sat at the back.…
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-78. The Stranger in My Office
Who are you? Why are you here? When I got to work, a stranger was sitting in my office. Coat on the chair. Half-drank coffee mug on display. It felt like her room. Without looking up, she slid a USB stick across the desk and said, “Could you print this for the meeting?” Most people…