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My Tuscany Dream | Mo Slevin

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Short Stories and An Odd Poem. April 12, 2014. For many years I have been fantasising about renting a villa in Tuscany. Not just any old villa, but one surrounded by olive trees, lemon trees, with swimming pool and maybe a hot tub thrown in for good measure The sheets would be changed every morning (Egyptian cotton 400 thread count of course), by a wonderful woman called Beatrice and her niece Mariola . Of course, this was just a dream but by a strange, ironic twist of fate, in the same week my Oncologis...

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The Match | Mo Slevin

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Short Stories and An Odd Poem. Larr; The Maid. An Uneventful Walk with my Dog. October 2, 2013. He was a man of prudent habits, he had a good bit of land, cows, chickens, money carefully saved, was quiet and dour by nature, and by all accounts was fond of his mother who was everything my Grandma was not. Who knows how things would have turned out if my Grandma had married the carpenter? Would she have been as wild, careless and profligate as she turned out to be, wedded to a man she had no feelings for?

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Grandma’s Teeth | Mo Slevin

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Short Stories and An Odd Poem. February 4, 2013. When my Grandma had finished shouting at me and my mother had stopped crying, I knew that it would be useless to protest further. How could a nine year old girl (from the city I might add), fight against the force of these two country women? Later, when I had calmed down somewhat and my Mum was brushing my hair she told me she would probably have a girl this time and that it would be good company for me, wouldn’t it? When she died, I couldn’t help myself a...

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Fighting Talk: September 2013

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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Friday, 20 September 2013. The boy sits at the kitchen table, huddled over a book. I circle the room slowly, slippers klitter-klattering on the cold tile. I pass the sink, again, scrubbed clean this morning with bleach and a metal scourer. A glass of water on the next lap. Definitely on the next lap. 8220;Sir. What about the conflict between Collins and…”. 8220;Stuart. For the last time, this isn’t school. You don’t have to call me Sir.”. 8220;John.”. 8220;It’s true...

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Fighting Talk: January 2014

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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Friday, 31 January 2014. In conversation with. Julian Gough. This is a old interview with Julian Gough, first published just before the release of 'Jude: Level 1'. Julian was at his lively best and he even made some interesting comments, considering what he has said in recent times, about the future of the novel. Enjoy. WHAT would Charles Darwin have made of Julian Gough? The only question left is one of genetics, dominant or regressive. 8220;People began to look at the b...

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Fighting Talk: In conversation with... Donal Ryan

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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Friday, 8 August 2014. In conversation with. Donal Ryan. One of the first things that strikes a readers about the work of Donal Ryan is the simple confidence of his prose. The language is direct and unforgiving, flowing easily from a page that appears to have been crafted by the character itself, and not during late night labours over a script. But Ryan, like so many of us, struggles desperately with his confidence. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Promote your Page too.

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Fighting Talk: Nasturtium

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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Sunday, 8 February 2015. He walks to the window slowly, dragging polished shoes across the cold tile floor. 8220;It’s been so…” he offers, working the blinds with his knotted fingers, “unexpected. More like April than November really. Not a bad day for it, as days go.”. A shaft of white light enters the room. He turns slowly, opens his mouth and closes it again. 8220;I miss you,” he whispers. 8220;You would have loved those nasturtiums.”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Fighting Talk: In Purgs

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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Friday, 1 May 2015. The blind man hurls a lopsided stone into the lake, unsettling the one legged heron in the grey shallows. Beside him on the wooden mooring, the man-on-the-street sits cross-legged, head bowed, enveloped by his dark trench coat. 8220;You can see it? 8221; spits the man-on-the-street. “You? 8220;I can see the light changing. And I feel the warmth going from the air.”. 8220;What did you write? 8221; he asks, wafting wet air into the blind man’s ear. 8220;...

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Fighting Talk: August 2014

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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Friday, 8 August 2014. In conversation with. Donal Ryan. One of the first things that strikes a readers about the work of Donal Ryan is the simple confidence of his prose. The language is direct and unforgiving, flowing easily from a page that appears to have been crafted by the character itself, and not during late night labours over a script. But Ryan, like so many of us, struggles desperately with his confidence. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Promote your Page too. Galwa...

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Burren Natural Strawberry Plants: Wild Strawberries

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Growing Lots of Berries. The Celts (Handmade Willow Figures). About the secrtet strawberry garden. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. Burren Natural Strawberry Plant. Welcome to Burren Berries, the home of organic garden strawberry, alpine strawberries, wild strawberry and raspberry plants in County Clare, Ireland. Each plant is produced in the most natural way possible - with no artificial fertilisers, chemicals, compost or pesticides. To place an order. CPI - The Archive.