Our selves, alone. Extract 5 (and final) Nthposition.com 2010
This is the end of the story. Not too sure about the “reveal” at this distance. However of all the stories I have reposted here this is the one I…
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Our Selves, Alone. Extract 4. Nthposition. 2010
“When society was organised along rational lines, it is surprising how many people were left behind.” That line is striking on re-reading this stories. I am not sure how well my…
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…
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…
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 