Mum took a summer job on a ferry, serving plates piled with slices of black pudding and greasy triangles of fried tattie scones, to tourists…
Make an appointment with the GP, who examines your scalp and says, Hmm, only a little. At your age, a degree of hair thinning’s to…
tell me my shoes need resoling/ (who doesn’t?). Some crunch in a quiet kind of way/ but others/ spit fierce into traffic or hedgerow/ tiddley-winked.…
In the old blue Escort, hurtling along humped roads bookended by skinned bogland. Benson and Hedges butts crinkled and bunched into the open ashtray like…
Bhí an aifreann díreach thart agus greim daingean agam ar mo leaidíní i gcoinne an borradh pobail a bhí ag brú amach tríd doirse an…
Rona’s teacher was talking about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress and the class was alive with giggles as you would expect from a…
My emotional support bear killed my sister tonight. He says I should give him a proper name, but when I suggest Bob, he gets huffy,…
I bake the pie every year on your birthday, yes it seems a strange thing to do; but we were always strange, and strangeness is…
I screamed a lie to the Pacific Ocean that April and it smashed it back. It roared No More Lies, so I flew home two…
Dennis Man keeps a pretty wife looks young enough to be his daughter, there’s things that man’s got to do to keep her in line.…