Fiction: PANOPTICON
The Panopticon The panopticon is an architectural design for institutional buildings with an inbuilt system…
The Panopticon The panopticon is an architectural design for institutional buildings with an inbuilt system…
The con cometh The demon smirks, having laid out her wares. Will they see what…
I cruise the Philosophy section of Hodges Figgis, watching, waiting. Like an old-fashioned spy I…
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Gillnets I remember as a child picking them out from the bow, and peering down…
Fothering the sheep Only minus seven this morning but the gate latches are frozen solid.…
There is a Panther on the Streets of Paris slinging hammocks of intent between each…
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Luke 2:1-7 _ It was the time Augustus Caesar had cried…
Eternal Return My sixteen year old daughter comes to me to complain about Patrick Kavanagh.…
“It’s been two days. We gotta to do something. It’s gonna go rotten.” “I…
What comes to mind in Ireland What is black? An absence of light, the cassocks…
Vitruvian Woman For Laura A Poem for Halloween Svelte limbs, aquiline and flow, her…
Richard Midwinter arrived early at the Garrick and on entering the theatre was struck by…
September is Here and I want to feel the tingle of autumn over the horizon.…
The Revolutionary Andrée Blouin, 1921-1986 A hungry child can never truly sleep. In the orphanage…
Maldon days hēt þā hyssa hwæne hors forlǣtan, feorr āfȳsan, and forð gangan,…