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  • A Pair of Tales

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    Author’s Note: Welcome to this week’s blog post. Thank you for joining me today. I appreciate you as a valued subscriber. Some stories stay with us because they touched something tender; others because they tested our patience, our sanity, or our ability not to scream in public. This week’s pair of tales lives on opposite…

  • A Week After Never

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    Author’s Note I am sharing only this piece today, as it stands alone as my tribute to my long‑lost brother. Some writings belong to a larger collection, but this one carries its own gravity — a quiet, personal remembrance that deserves its own space. Ed’s absence has shaped the long arc of my life. In…

  • The Places Fear Follows

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    Author’s Note: Hello dear readers, welcome again to my blog. Today I’m sharing something a little different—two pieces that walk the borderlands between fear, memory, and the unseen. There are places the mind wanders long before the body ever follows—shadowed corridors where memory, dread, and ancient names drift like ash on the wind. Today’s first…

  • Two Stories For, Two Worlds

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    Author’s Note – Some days, the past arrives with a grin. Other days, it knocks on the door with a shadow at its back. This month’s stories come from those opposite corners. The first is a warm, mischievous memory from when the world was simple, sunlight was entertainment, and a three‑year‑old boy believed a mailman…

  • Pot O’ Gold – Part Three

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    Author’s Note – Two weeks ago, I shared Part one of the story inspired by the poem I shared on March 3rd. Today, I’m posting the conclusion, but first, a recap: Previously on Pot O’ Gold… Young Seamus O’Donnell, desperate to save his family during the Great Hunger of 1847, set out across Arranmore Island…

  • Pot O’ Gold (Part II of III)

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    Author’s Note:   Two weeks ago I shared the poem, Pot O’ Gold, written years ago and recently expanded into a full short story. Today, on St. Patrick’s Day, I’m sharing Part One of that story — a tale set on Arranmore Island in 1847, during the darkest days of the Great Hunger. This first…

  • Pot O’ Gold (Part One of Three)

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    Author’s Note: To begin the month of St. Patrick’s Day, I’m sharing a poem I first wrote more than twenty years ago. It’s a playful encounter with King Brian, the Leprechaun King, and it eventually inspired a much larger story set on Arranmore Island during the Great Hunger. The full tale will unfold here over…

  • A Sneak Peek for Those Who’ve Put Up With Me This Long

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    Right, you lot get to hear it first. My new book, Bloody Mary of Arranmore, is officially finished and about to go live on Amazon. I’ll make the big public announcement soon, but I wanted you — my blog readers, the ones who’ve endured my ramblings, drafts, and questionable jokes — to have the early…

  • A Peculiar Double Feature for You

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    ********** Author’s Note: Some stories come from dreams. This one came from a cracked window, a flickering light, and the kind of argument you can only have with yourself when the world’s gone quiet. Aliens of the Eighth Level is a tale of paranoia, shadows, and voices that don’t always stay in your head. If…

  • Grown-Up Ghosts, & Childhood Echoes

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    Author’s Note: Not every story makes it into the first telling. Some slip between the cracks of memory, or stay hidden in notebooks and desk drawers for years, waiting for their turn. These are what I call the Lost Chapters. They didn’t make it into the main body of my most recent book, You Can’t…