Virtual Writer Fiction.
Welcome to the Virtual Writer Fiction section where you can read short fiction from Irish and international contributors. If you would like to see your own work featured here, the editor is currently seeking submissions of short stories or novel extracts up to 2,500 words.
"When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent. I was hiding out by the river in a hole under a tangle of briars. It was a hide me and Joe made. Death to all dogs who enter here, we said. Except us of course."
from 'The Butcher Boy' by Pat McCabe
Featured:
Founded on Fear
by Peter Tyrrell
published by Transworld Ireland
A tormented childhood in Letterfrack industrial school with the Christian Brothers left an enduring mark on Peter Tyrrell. His story of horrific abuse is told with childlike simplicity, penned in a series of letters to Senator Owen Sheehy Skeffington.
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The Book Club
By Kate McCabe
Bestselling author of The Beach Bar 
Looking for a way to take her mind off her lying ex – Marian Hunt decides to start a book club. And pretty soon, it begins to take off … Christy Grimes thinks the book club will help his beloved wife in her recovery from a stroke, but little does he know the effect it will have on him. Read On...
At a Time Like This
by Catherine Dunne
Four women gather to celebrate their friendship. A quarter-century of intimacies shared, betrayals survived, differences reconciled. There is Claire, with her unsuitable men; she knows that life will never give her the one thing she has always wanted. Read On
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khalid Hosseini
This novel explores the turbulent history of modern Afghanistan through the lives of two young characters' and offers extraordinarily harrowing insights into the lives of Afghan women over the past three decades. Read On..
