Our Selves, Alone. Extract 3. From Nthposition, 2010
Full story here. and Extract 1 here and Our Selves, Alone. Extract 2. Nthposition, 2010 “Dr Gallagher now my now self would be grateful to your now self if my now self could…
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Our Selves, Alone. Extract 2. Nthposition, 2010
Full story here. and Extract 1 here. I recall my efforts to construct a linguistic expression of the contention that our selves are simply bundles of momentary, instantaneous responses, rather than something…
Our Selves, Alone. (extract 1) Nthposition. 2010
Rather than pasting great dobs of text here of my various stories, I have decided to either post previews with the full text elsewhere, or dividing them into parts, as…
That damn family part 4 of 4 (or possibly more!) nthposition March/April 2008
Part the last of what is previously available to read here and here and here It has naturally enough struck me that this could continue for a while – after all I don’t…
That Damn Family. Part 3 (of 4) nthposition.com , March/April 2008
Here there is a great dollop of exposition in the best declamatory style – including the word “yeomen”. Indeed, “local yeomen”. In the phrase “gathering local yeomen”. Ahem. Part 1…
That damn family. Part 1 (of 4) originally published nthposition April/May 2008
“Updating” myths or fairytales has always struck me as an endeavour at best pointless, at worst insulting. Guilty of believing our own times are somehow unique – uniquely wise, uniquely…
“The Tao of Tetris”, nthposition, 2005
I have always been leery of stories too obviously Based On Real Life Experience. Herein, however, the bar, “American Pool”, the LeShan book, and the general milieu are very much…
“The fifteenth of August” Nthposition, 2009
Most of my fiction has been, at least to date, working out a particular idea to its conclusion. At times this has given it a rather abstract quality. This story…
Séamus Sweeney 