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Posted on July 30, 2018July 26, 2018

“The Driver”, winner of Molly Keane Memorial Creative Writing Award 2010

It was a privilege to receive this award in 2010 in Lismore, via the auspices of Waterford County Council, and to hear the kind words from Molly Keane’s daughter at…

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Posted on March 24, 2018

From “The State”, a short story by Tommy Orange

From The New Yorker, drawn from Orange’s forthcoming novel There There Before you were born, you were a head and a tail in a milky pool—a swimmer. You were a…

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Posted on March 30, 2017

Review of “The Lady of Situations”, Stephen Dedman, SF Site 2011

Original here. Another of my SF Site reviews of Ticonderoga Publications books after this and this.  As with “Ghost Seas”, I recall greatly enjoying the book at the time, yet have forgotten most about…

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Posted on March 30, 2017

Review of “Love in Vain”, Lewis Shiner, SF Site 2010

Another Ticonderoga Publications review, following the review of “Ghost Seas” by Steven Utley of the prior post, here is a review of Lewis Shiner’s Love in Vain. Lewis Shiner  is an interesting writer – I…

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Posted on January 15, 2016January 15, 2016

The Solitary Golfer, nthposition, March 2012

From about 2010 I began to submit my stories to various publications with mixed results. Around the same time I discovered duotrope.com and how accessible the world of literary publications…

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