Writezone Fiction Featured Reads
- Ice Cooled Mangoes. (Durlabh Singh)
A humorous description of life in an Indian town.
- On the Fin of the Fish (Jill Barth)
- A young girl encounters a graceful and unexpected messenger near her home in Belgium during World War II.
- Eleanor (Mick Beville)
- In a loveless marriage Eleanor confronts her worst fear.
- Here in The Boxes (Richard Cahill)
- A hopeful monologue by a character whom we gradually realize has been detained by a nameless authority for security reasons.
- Daughters of the Earth (Marie Lynam Fitzpatrick)
- I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. -- Samuel Johnson
- Aaron (Mick Beville)
- A child of eight deals with abandonment
- Belvedere (Marie Lynam Fitzpatrick)
- Short fictional dream piece. 370 words
- Contract at Niagara (Malcolm Bray)
- Wendy and Henry are married a long time, but there are dark secrets from the past, concerning their two daughters. To confront them, Wendy insists they take a trip to Niagara Falls together. There she offers him a take-it-or-leave-it contract, with both surprising and devastating consequences.
'Contract' is 1474 words in length. - The Heir (Andrew Coburn)
- Money thrown into a mix of emotions.
- Charlie Judd (Andrew Coburn)
- A child conniving with a madman.
- Lakeside (claudia terry)
- A short story that begins a journey.
- The Last Mining Village (Brian Leyden)
- The changing patterns of rural life in Ireland of the 1960s.
- DINA (Mick Beville)
- A story of abuse and rejection that leads Dina to face her ultimate truth.
- 1992 (Colm Brady)
- A hitch-hiking voyage.
- The Anchorous Sea (claudia terry)
- Iseult struggles to stay afloat in The Anchorous Sea (a metaphor for depression), her state of mind clinging to the floatsam jetsum of life. She feels strongly about fate and destiny and believes that she is the reincarnation of Sylvia Plath.
- Charles (Gerry McKeague)
- Based on a character a met while studying in South Africa as a medical student.
- From the Cross (Colm Brady)
- The end of a stormy journey.
- Ghost Story (Lucy Ann Wade)
- A ghost recounts her daily existence.
- A Good Chat (Tom Farrell)
- Father gets caught between his postmodern postfeminist daughter and his traditional mother
- Distance Never Moves (GR OLIVER)
- Taking my family to a small town similar to the one I grew up, I experienced time flies and distance never moves.
- Cul-De-Sac (Mick Beville)
- A story of predjudice and assumption
- Another September (Eileen Reynolds)
- A change of life for a middle-aged woman
- Shell (Niamh Madden)
- Grace has moved to Galway city and discovers a love that embraces everything. A place, a man and then an object. There's something precious about the shell that Grace's boyfriend Rory gives her. Something so hollow and beautiful that can fill up with water in an instant. But what happens when Grace fills the shell with secrets?
- The Blind Leading the Blind (Niamh Madden)
- Lisa and her mother are on their way to a prestigious eye clinic in Hanover, Germany. Lisa is blind and trying to cope with her mother - how much more care can she possibly take of Lisa without encasing her in bubble wrap? But along the way Lisa's sight is restored, and not by the clinic...
- ANY and ALL (Andrew Clancy)
I turned around again. There was no doubt � I was lost. Completely lost. I looked down at my watch. Five to six. I was going to be late and worse again I was going to be empty handed when I did get back. I felt my mobile buzz in my pocket and my stomach clenched. I knew who that was, I couldn't answer. How could I expl
- Lost For Words (mark dunphy)
- On one of his weekly hospital visits to his Grandad, Nathan gets more than he bargains for. He is four years old and has not said a word in his short life. His Grandad has some advice that could change his life forever.
- Dressed as a Goddess (sandra bunting)
- The director of the city's new museum gets more excitement than he had planned as two different women have an influence on what the museum is like.
- The Dying Time (Lorne Patterson)
- It is the 10th of March, 1923. Russia has had revolutionary Government for less than five years. In that time, Lenin, head of the Bolshevik Party which claims the sole right to represent Russia's peoples, has fought a civil war with the deposed monarchists; an anti-intervention war against the world Powers who have sought to overthrow his rule; and a class-war against all those Russians who oppose Bolshevik authority. Lenin himself has been shot and nearly killed by a fellow-revolutionary. Since 1914 some thirty million Russians have died, from war, famine, or disease. Red Terror has finally imposed a one-party dictatorship upon this vast and ravaged nation.
Now Lenin is seriously ill, having experienced an incapacitating stroke strokes. The Party itself is in a state of flux, and with Lenin's health failing fast, the manouvering to succeed him has begun... - Two Beatings (Damien Muldoon)
- A bad week for a guy who was just trying to get his life back in order.
- Britney (Colm Brady)
- Description of pub conflict between local farmer and newly arrived property developer.
- Tequila is a Deceptive Bastard (Sean Cunningham)
- A young man working a down and out job explains a typical, insane night out where the edge is always closer than he thinks and his inability to feel or connect with people is made crystal clear.
- Before You Laugh (Damien Muldoon)
- A young couple have a very public break up.
- The Year of Three Winters (Declan Ryan)
- A mid-life commuter comes to terms with his fathers illness as he takes in scenes from the everyday.
- Waiting for Tom Gaffney (Alan McMonagle)
- Cutting it on a Saturday afternoon...
- Official Collector (Bill Griffin)
- To have epilepsy or to be an epileptic; that is the question.
