On Eid, I wake up to the aroma of sweet seviyan. This hasn’t happened in the last five years. I hug Ammi and ask for some…
She tries to smile but her lips stick to her teeth and all she manages is a gruesome leer. As the tourist aims his phone…
Heat spreads over your body, eyelids burn blood-orange as you rest your face to the heavens. The hedge rustles to itself and whispers idle tales…
‘Gabh isteach anseo láithreach, a Athair Uí Laoire.’ Guth an Easpaig sách borb agus é ag labhairt isteach sa fón. ‘Tá mé cráite agaibh uilig.…
D’ardaigh an Chailleach a cloigeann cromtha, cnámh droma ag claicearnach, i dtreo béal na pluaise. Bhrúigh leoithne ghaoithe teasaí isteach i gcoinne an dúch-dorchadas. ‘A…
Thunder. Crash of new shoes on old floors. Crash of good men on good floors, ping of braces on sweat chests, hair slicked, collision of…
Popcorn was the only way to say it. Sweet or salty? The only ticket if you were from Strathcairn estate on that end of town…
The snake stepped up the side of the cliff, its gaze seized upon the haunches of the mammals up ahead. It had to stunt its…