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Guest Post: ‘A New Corner’ by Claire Savage
Royal Avenue hums with activity the further along she goes, pedestrians filtering in from side streets; dropping out of shop doorways and sliding into the throng from the Metros. The buses cut a path past Castlecourt, Tesco, McDonalds, like pink … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, Boots, Castlecourt, City Hall, Claire Savage, coffee, fiction, Literature, McDonald's, Royal Avenue, Russia, short story, Street music, Tesco, Vernacularisms, writing
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The Cat’s Whiskas
I’ve slept in. Nightmare. Red-eyed and hungover, I jump out of bed. My head is banging and my stomach is full of acid; I might boke yet. In a flash, I recall that there was whiskey last night. We’d been … Continue reading
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Tagged Ardoyne, Belfast, busking, Cat Food, hangover, Irish Music, Jamaica Inn, Jason O'Rourke, Literature, short story, sleeping rough, sliced pan loaf, Tesco, Whiskas, whiskey, writing
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Super-cool
I am early getting into Lurgan, and have to wait at the gates as the clunking commuter trains bound for Belfast and Portadown traverse the road. Driving past the high metal-clad walls of the Police Station, I turn down Church … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, Boss Hogg's, Cafolla's, Church Walk, Fa' Joe's, Jason O'Rourke, Julie's Kitchen, Literature, Lurgan, Market Street, Portadown, short story, Tesco, Travellers
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Vernacularisms 