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International Dublin Writers Festival --- Why We Write (Excerpt)
…….And now for the real reason, one which becomes more and more apparent every day. Especially during a time when we’re surrounded by...
Greg Fields
Sep 232 min read
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Rhythm Lost
When she was a young girl Rosie Carter loved to dance. Her small body would sway to the slightest hint of music – a bird’s song, or the...
Greg Fields
Jul 83 min read
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Willie in the Wind
It had been a night of drinking, and an unsuccessful one at that. The scotch at the first bar had been flat and harsh, and when he...
Greg Fields
Jun 83 min read
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The Coldest of Places
The snow came bitterly the winter after Willie Meadows buried his mother, the winds blowing so hard that the flakes felt like tiny...
Greg Fields
Jan 223 min read
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Stairway to Heaven
The call had come the night before from a voice at once mechanical and practiced at the disbursement of bad news, yet one which still...
Greg Fields
Feb 12, 20243 min read
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The Sins of the Fathers
When the door to his room kicked open, Matthew Cooney curled into a protective ball on his bed, tucked his knees into his chest and...
Greg Fields
Aug 22, 20235 min read
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The Cooing of the Mourning Doves
Cooney turned his back to the rising sun and made his way down wind-blown streets littered with shreds of newspaper and fast-food...
Greg Fields
Apr 2, 20234 min read
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In the Shadows of Moonlight
In the lean years, before the end of it all, before the final curtain, Emma Mannion thought little of her past, little of the rutted and...
Greg Fields
Jan 21, 20233 min read
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Living in a Free State
Vanity of Vanities; all is Vanity – Ecclesiastes 1:2 Another day to the streets, the crawling, creeping, beeping streets and those who...
Greg Fields
Oct 9, 20223 min read
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