2022

 

Cherry

She Cries

Picture from Pixabay She looks out onto the quiet suburban cluster of red brick semidetached houses and weeps. The seagulls on the roof on the house...
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Morris

Morris As Gemma walked into the small two-bedroom terraced house that she had bought with her boyfriend, Scott, three years before that they had been...
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Isabelle

Brian looked at his wedding album, a glass of fairly decent whiskey in his hand, and was reminded of how his wife, Emma, was positively glowing that...

A New Beginning

‘Ok, you can drop us here,’ Sean said to the taxi driver as he pulled up to the front of his dishevelled new apartment building. He paid the driver...

Peanut

When the waitress placed a coffee in front of me, I thanked her, a sombre expression on my face. I cupped the mug in my hands, allowing the heat...

Bright Eyes

As I sat watching tv with my husband, Dave, and two boys, who were almost grown men but will always be boys to me, I looked out of the window and was...
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To Little Niamh

This is a piece from my journal of the older me talking to the younger me. I’m trying with all my might to keep my head above water emotionally and...

The Wedding (Take One)

As Linda sat on the make up chair, relatives buzzing around her, making what she perceived to be a fuss, she was registering 0 in the comfort scale...

The Love of Her Life

Sophie watched her beloved, asleep on the pillow beside her and caressed her alabaster skin with the back of her hand until it was swatted off. She...

Meadow

‘Up! Up! Everybody up!’ A loud, booming voice reverberated through my core. I grunted and nursed my broken ribs. I felt, what I thought to be a foot...

The Olive Branch

Dave sat inconspicuously in his black 2004 Peugeot 307 overlooking the harbour. The tide was in but the current was changing and he watched as the...

Sustenance

here is some flash fiction. picture from pixabay As light issued under her cell door she lay in wait of the hatch in the bottom of her door to open...

Good Bye My Friend

As the alarm clock buzzed on Saturday morning, I hit with such gusto that it fell to the floor with a thud. I was kicking myself that I hadn’t turned...
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By Happinstance

I walked nonchalantly down Henry Street in Dublin’s city centre, drinking in the sights and sounds of all it brought. I realised I hadn’t been there...
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Finally, Freedom

Stuart was desperate to get there, desperate to get anywhere in fact. He had spent the last six years in a maximum security prison in the town of...

Acceptance

If you look despair up in the dictionary you will be told it means: ‘the complete loss or absence of hope’. Stephanie was desperate. She had just...

Just One Night

Why do I feel so nervous? After all its only one night and it’s not as if I’m going to be alone. She has every right to go. After all, its not every...

A Delicate Mind

Valerie was on a dating app one night and swiped right when she saw the profile of, what she thought, to be a goddess. Her heartbeat raced when the...
Cherry

Finally Proud

Kathy was the type of person who liked to please everyone. She did so at a detriment to herself. Kathy had a very vulnerable soul. She hated conflict...

Miracle Birth

Sophie abruptly woke as Otis, the German Shephard, barked into the darkness. She found this strange because Otis never barked unless he had something...
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May you live all the days of your life

This is a piece is one I wrote in 2017 that I have revamped and hopefully made better. picture from pixabay May you live all the days of your life...

The Storm

As the rain pelted against the window, I listened to the wind roar. The sycamore sapling outside the sitting room window was almost bent at a ninety-...

Freedom

This is another revisited piece from back in 2015. Picture from pixabay. Freedom Locked up like a prisoner, she cries. Dressed in nothing but pyjama...

Nurse Ratchet

As I carefully got out of the elevator, making sure my crutches didn’t get caught between the gap from the lift to the first floor, my heart raced. ‘...
Cherry

Teddy

‘Daddy, daddy, daddy,’ Louise repeated tapping her father’s shoulder. When he opened his eyes, she smiled at him and asked him to bring her to the...

Dad

I believe that there is a difference between a father and a dad. In my opinion any male could be a father regardless of your age, race, sexuality or...

Forever Home

As Max, a seven-week-old black and tan Jack Russell Terrier, played with his brothers and sisters in the basking sun, he thought to himself how lucky...
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Cherry

Wait!

‘Fifteen minutes, you have fifteen minutes to vacate the property!’ an authoritative voice banged on the door to the flat. It was stupid o’clock on a...
Cherry

I Used To Have a Garden

As I entered to parking lot to the nursing home my heartstrings tugged. Why did I always feel guilty coming here? I had done everything in my power...

The Alleged Falcon Massacre

I crept into the house, afraid to wake my wife and kids. It was half ten. I had been working late, like I did every Friday night for the past six...

The Eulogy

As I sat in my armchair beside the fire, a good book in one hand, a glass of wine in the other, I rested my head on my shoulder and basked in the...
Cherry

I'm Getting Published!

This is a story that will hopefully come true one day in the near future. Picture from pixabay. A I sat on the bottom step of the stairs in wait of...

The Envelope

As I stood under the flickering street lamp, I saw the same familiar four faces staring glumly into the distance. I looked at my watch, it was late...

The Bed

Here’s a bit of flash fiction. Picture from Pixabay As she sat in her desk that took up half of one of the walls spaces in the small room, she sighed...

The Dreaded 'C' Word

As far back as memory serves a holiday was when you jumped onto a plane, fighting with your luggage through a busy airport, followed by the battle of...

The Trunk part 1

After Michaels grandmother Angela passed on, he was given the task to clean out her attic as, at the age of twenty seven, he was the youngest and...

The Trunk part 2

Even though Kayleigh was asleep when he got home to the apartment, he couldn’t but wake her to tell her about his day. As he rubbed her shoulder and...
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Cherry

The Forbidden Kiss

Here is some flash fiction. Picture from pixabay. It was a kiss that would have been forbidden long ago. Penelope caught Sinead by surprise as their...

Nature's Way

Am I just a body in a bed? These eyes they mirror the sky’s mood and shed, Tears that fall as I peer out, The window and scream, and beg, and shout,...

10 Seconds

It can only take 10 seconds to alter a person’s view on life…. just 10 seconds 1 Mississippi Sinead lingers by her bedside, near the clinical room,...
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Cherry

I Remember

I remember the first time I met you just as clearly as the last time I laid eyes on you. It was a sweltering day in mid-August 1998. We drove two...
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Daddy's Little Girl

2002 Kate was a very studious girl. Unfortunately, due to health issues, she had to drop out of school at sixteen. Her father, Robert, was her idol...

Fifteen Years

Julia, was a kind and generous woman who was brought up with the beliefs that she should put others before herself. She was a gentle soul who wouldn’...
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Cherry

Freddie

Spencer was a seagull who thought he ruled all of the estate he frequented. Year after year he nested with his partner, Wendy, and they made...
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Her Justice is Life

Maria was a troubled soul. She was someone who was dealt a crappy life in her earlier years which impacted greatly on her throughout her life. It...

The Lost Boys

When I arrived at the coffee shop with the knowledge that the kids were with their no-good son of a bitch father for the afternoon, I spotted a seat...

The Asylum Part 1

As we drove down the windy gravelled road, our tires kicking pebbles into the trees that towered over us like a canopy trying to hide what was to...

The Asylum Part 2

It was summer and the hospital required for us to get some air daily. I was ushered into a courtyard, about twenty meters by twenty meters, which was...

You

Here is a bit of flash fiction. picture from pixabay. Look at you! You are a pathetic blubbering mess! Why did you ignore your friends when they...

I Am Free

I’m free…but for how long? I can feel the snow crunch under my boots as I run for the hills, my bag banging against my back with every stride. I look...

The Lost Years

2022 I finally arrived…the penthouse suite no less. I looked to my left and saw a stern-faced guard stare back at me, the black cloth bag that was...

Dear Dad

Dear Dad, I am writing you this letter so you can take into account the experiences in my life which have shaped me into the woman I am today, You...

To Paddy

Suzie loved food. She loved everything about it; looking at it, eating it, and most importantly cooking it. Her favourite thing in the world was to...

The Ouija Board

As John stared up at the luminescent stars on the ceiling above his bed, he was conflicted. He tossed and he turned but he couldn’t help experiencing...

Something Worthwhile

As I lay on the trolley, the Valium kicking in, I felt relaxed and without a care in the world. Susan, my wife by my side, smiled at me. ‘How are you...
Cherry

Belle and Daisy (1)

Before the day Belle and Daisy entered my life, I never thought I could love another dog like I did my Rex. We were down with my nanny in Waterford...

Belle and Daisy (3)

As I worked weddings with my aunt Fiona, I lived parttime in Dublin, parttime in Waterford. We would go to the weddings with a magic mirror photo...

Work Experience

When I was twenty three, I almost qualified to be a veterinary nursing assistant. I had the theory down but work experience just wasn’t what I had...

My First Job

My parents brought us up knowing the value of money. We weren’t deprived of anything we wanted, we just had to save up for it. When I was fourteen, I...

The Trunk

‘I have some pain killers here for you here Mr Daley!’ said the Filipino nurse before she injected morphine into the canula in the back of my...

And One More Makes Six

‘Honey,’ Mary called from the ensuite bathroom that was as small as a postage stamp, ‘honey!!!’ she said with urgency pulling her husband Kevin away...

Deceit

I was sitting at my desk, working on a case. She walked in and sat down right in front of me. Neither of us said a word. She watched as I continued...

The Honeymoon

‘Ooohh here!’ Bobby says to his new wife Charlene in his Texan drawl, ‘we gone an booked us a nice place for a honeymoon!’ ‘We sure have!’ Charlene...

Five Days

Five days, who could imagine that five days could change your life forever, could put doubt and fear into your bones that you never thought to be...

The Find

Dr Finkle, a man as peculiar as his name, was gifted a free night stay at the Aisling Hotel to go to a conference in Dublin. Dr Finkle lived in...

Bingo

‘Agnes,’ ‘Yes Bridie,’ ‘Would you like to come down with me to the bingo to see what it’s all about?’ Bridie said in her thick Louth accent. ‘Ah here...

Shame

“Well, what I find very interesting is…” he began, and she sank into her chair, exhaling quietly and turning her attention to the empty fields...
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Paddy

Paddy was a man who didn’t know the meaning of speaking quietly. Every evening, he would burst into the sitting room giving my grandmother the fright...

Being Neighborly

‘Paul,’ Lucy said as she rubbed hand cream into her dainty little hands lying in bed with the only man she had ever loved. ‘Yes dear,’ Paul answered...

The Ultimate Revenge

Lisa came home from work at six to a very romantic dinner her betrothed had so lovingly prepared. It was the fifth anniversary of the day they first...

So, so still

She was so still. Leo looked at his baby girl over her cot and couldn’t believe he had finally gotten her to sleep. He looked at his little miracle...

Reminiscence

Pip was guilt ridden. She couldn’t meet the eyes of her mother, Kathy, or aunt, Lorraine, after Sinead’s death. Pip couldn’t forgive herself for...
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The Click

There she sits. She sits and she waits for her time to come. Every Wednesday she waits for the people on high to descend upon her to tell her if they...

The contest of life

The demand for a place in Scoil Realt na Mara, the school I once went to, has grown exponentially. Since the completion of the new housing estate...

The unofficial bridesmaid

My mom is one of twelve which means a lot of weddings and birthdays and engagement parties. Sometimes I find it hard to remember who was where when...

The bench by the sea

Sinead’s suffered from insomnia. When it coupled with her psychosis and depression, she didn’t leave her bedroom except to use the bathroom in five...

In remembrance

Pip was guilt ridden and couldn’t meet the eyes of her mother, Kathy, or aunt, Lorraine, after Sinead’s death. Pip couldn’t forgive herself for going...
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The game of life

‘Ok people, we have a contest on our hands,’ Lenny shouted at the six broken and bruised faces in front of him. He walked around the room, the girls...
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Do I?

John was comfortable with his sexual orientation. When he was fourteen years old, he was being bullied. People called him names and pushed him around...
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Information highway

‘Is it possible to be truly anonymous online?’ he asked himself as he was looking for a long-lost friend with whom he shared a traumatic experience...
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She called me bunny

Her mouth was open in awe of the cranes and how tall they were. She never knew buildings could climb that high. She had seen them, of course, on the...
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Forget me not

Do you ever wish that you could forget? I will never be able to fully understand the death of my son! I know I have dementia and I know that my son...
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Do you ever wish you could turn back time?

Do you ever wish that you could turn back time? I did that one life altering day. I got up and showered as usual, my brother banging on the door...
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Why are you all here?

‘Why are you all here?’ Pip shouted and looked around the room at the silenced crowd of faces, ‘some of you have never even been to this house!’...
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Trying to find peace

A bit of flash fiction

Her last wish

A mother passes Her ring to her son, ‘Make sure I’d approve Of whose finger it’s on!’ She lies and waits Trying not to persuade, As to his who he...
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memory

just a couple of lines
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Together forever

my first sonnet

Medusa

A bit of poetry for a change

Life is a puzzle

Ever get the sense that you are fighting a losing battle?
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Destiny

A nice poem to end the week

The sun

The sun soars, My skin roars. One Side burns The other Numb. The sun is free, Guaranteed no fee, Yet I sit out, Protection none.

The minute hand

A poem to beging the week picture from pixabay

The lonesome egg

They treat me like an egg, About to drop and splat, The reality is I’m more Complex than that! My room unkept and busy, Not the way I left it,...

The war

picture from pixabay

Blessed

a really short one. picture from pixabay
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Gold cherry

Nanny part 1

When I think back to when I was a child and think of my nanny the first thing, I can remember is the waft of sausages sizzling nicely on the pan that...
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Cherry

Nanny part 2

We used to ring my nanny when we hit the bridge in Waterford for her to put on the kettle. Nowadays, there’s no point as she would forget as soon as...
Cherry

the forgotten stranger

sometimes we just have so much going on in our heads that we forget things picture from flickr

Maisie

the world seems to right itself in one way or another! picture from flickr
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I have come a long way!

I'm stronger today than i was yesterday, but not as strong as I'll be tomorrow. image from flickr
Cherry

Be still my breaking heart

‘Amy…Amy…. Amy honey, they need an answer!’ Amy felt her mother’s touch bring her out of a dissociative state. ‘We were just all together…’ Amy...
Cherry

Dr Agnes

I dont know if any of you listen to Joe Duffy but I thought I'd mix it up and write a piece like a radio program. I hope you enjoy!

Pure determination

I wrote this as an ode to my brother. He has been through so much and continues to struggle but he does it with a smile on his face and faith that one day he will be back to the old him. He never stops trying and im so proud of him.
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Cherry

The crisis in the North Pole

Me and Robbie go way back. We’re both frequent flyers at a certain mental health hospital. Because I’m not good with new people due to my paranoia, I...
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Centipede Olympics

‘There’s a man in the house, there’s a man in the house and he’s trying to kill me!’ Robert says to his mother one Wednesday night. ‘There’s no one...

Chanel no.5

This is a short account of what I believe happens when you lose a spouce.
Cherry

May you live all the days of your life

I read this out at the fabulous night abc tales organised on sunday the 11th. it was a great night and there were a lot of brilliant stories, poems, and songs shared. thank you abc tales!

Mince pies

I hate mince pies! They whole idea of them makes me feel uncomfortable. They’re call ‘mince’ pies, even though there’s no actual ‘mince’ in them. My...
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Cherry

Familial Bliss

‘I’m so excited about going home!’ I admit to my boyfriend of three years, Ross. ‘It’ll be nice to finally meet your mom and Darragh in person and...
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The Christmas Quiz

Do you ever look forward to something so much, that when it delivers you are pleasantly surprised?