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• The Agent – I.

  Agent Cobalt Byron watched his glass sweating. Meandering rivulets formed bosomish half circles. His thumb breasted the glass’s neck to meet his forefinger’s tip. His movements were liquid. A studied portrait of poured grace. He brought his drink to his open carp mouth. Like an assassin silently unleashing his impatiently-brandished onzil into the head of…

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  22nd Apr 2024

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories

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• Second House

  When you speak What you don’t know Falls like fall snow Beneath your snout You seek and sneak and eke out You are a ghost inside my house A false knowing  A pallbearer when it’s snowing Lifting the palled coffin with no emotions showing His pale face, his cough-soured mouth  White as a winter lotus,…

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  17th Apr 2024

  Filí my pockets

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• Forced Anchorite

  Sound of quarantine siren’s cock-drowning reveilles Diseases dalliance, man’s disaster When chimaeras alliance, the end faster Than their sapping tango Dislike fruit but they wish would man go The end first which beginnings after The tickling cough that signals slaughter We’re far from needing dead daughters to get reasonable flights Although we recommend a vial…

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  4th Apr 2024

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• The Bullaun

  Final week in July but inside the church a chill winters the air. Father Herlihy’s sermon always runs long on Sundays. Never less than four but sometimes five hours long. He would write all night of a Saturday, crafting righteous tracts of comical dimension, designed to forestall what it was that his congregation got up…

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  29th Aug 2023

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• The Liffey Thing

  From April 23 1983 Irish Independent article by Peter Cowan Archaeologists have described the largest Viking graveyard ever to be excavated in Europe outside Scandinavia as a “significant find”. Pottery, stirrups, and locks were found during preliminary trenching at Dublin’s Phoenix Tunnel. ACI were notified when workmen found high numbers of topsoil artifacts. Foreman K…

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  28th Aug 2023

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