Kafka’s Café
Levi ‘Lev’ Driscoll, wrote the odd sentence or two when creativity revealed itself to him.…
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Fiction: Luigi’s Trip
My boss sent me looking for Luigi. One of his super-rich clients had been sucked…
Wonder Woman: The Baudelairean Ideal
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) reshaped the trajectory of modern literature. In acknowledgement T.S. Eliot famously called…
Chef Death
“Take me off!” Dad directed all his anger at Mi Sun, an Asian nurse who…
Fiction: An Oligarch’s Wife
To sit quietly and take in the view was unusual for Alexander Seymionovitch. His tall…
My Approach to Literary Networking
My Approach to Literary Networking after Francois Villon Most days I’d rather be bundled into…
Kevin Higgins: The Happy Song of Us
The Happy Song of Us Okay to buy your grandchild an ice-cream. Illegal for them…
Poetry: Fisheye by Nicholas Battey
Fisheye I, smudge in the eyescape of others, As my trowel lodges in mulch, Palm-sore,…
Poetry: James Harpur
Christmas Snow Never came that year, and yet It came in other ways, remembering the…
Poetry – Edward Clarke
Assembly One morning during the first week of Advent, _ When I was possessed, After…
Vendev’s Contest
Taking advantage of their last night in the city, Boris and Semyon went to a…
Poetry – Kevin Higgins
Our Posh Liberal Friends for Susan Whenever I show them the Future, they refuse it;…
Open Mike
Everyone was amazed when it happened and I mean everyone, including Jeffrey. For weeks now…
Purchase Cuban Love Songs
‘They sang Cuban love-songs and moonsweet madigrals and selections from the best and finest of…
Poetry: Kevin Higgins
Presidential When you finish reading this poem, you’ll remember only the Black Forest Gateaux I…
A Background in Science
Most Saturdays they stood outside the GPO in Dublin. People holding signs bearing slogans both…
Poetry – Kevin Higgins
Tribute Acts Each witch hunt is a tribute act to the last. There is always…
Jerry’s Dead
By the time I got to Lenny’s place he was pacing up and down out…