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#WhatAboutUs? This is not a production. It’s a protest.
The early days of Covid were tough for everyone. We were all stuck at home, learning remotely, working remotely and trying to get used to the new normal that was the year of Covid.
In those early days, one of the highlights was the New…
Book Review | If You are Reading This Then Drink Water
Daragh Fleming burst onto the literary scene with his debut collection of short stories in 2019. The Book of Revelations was an engaging and readable collection with a distinct voice that made it such a memorable collection. Fleming's…
Poem of the Week | Dancing with Lyme by Cathy Donelan
Dancing with Lyme
By Cathy Donelan
It took the life out of me.
Cold sweats with a shiver of something new –
a ‘ningle’, if that’s even a word.
It doesn’t sit right on the flat of my tongue
but I can feel it in my…
Original Fiction from Headstuff | Polystyrene people
It is not possible for anything good to come from polystyrene cups. It is also not possible for anything good to come from the people holding the polystyrene cups. They feel unnatural, cheap, fake and flimsy. Cups and people can be…
Book Review | Leonard and Hungry Paul: An Antidote for 2020
Leonard and Hungry Paul is the debut novel by Irish writer Ronan Hession, though many at home will be familiar with his music, performed under the moniker Mumblin' Deaf Ro. Published by UK based Bluemoose Books, it has has built and…
Poem of the Week | Three Irish Mothers of the 1950s by Amy Egan
Three Irish Mothers of the 1950s
By Amy Egan
Sometimes I think about the moment
my grandmother, married late and unexpectant,
told Grandad, grower of trees but indifferent to fruit,
(he’d upped, then rooted deep for…
Original Fiction from Headstuff | Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing
Frank Nolan is flustered, a state compounded by his drowsiness. As he hurries down the road, he still can’t figure out why his alarm didn’t go off. His FitSmart is pre-programmed for 7.15am every weekday, it has…
Original Fiction from Headstuff | David
The caretaker Jock looked round his five cleaners as they had a quick cup of tea in their closet amid the smell of old mop-heads before school finished for the day and they went off to clean their classrooms. His gaze lingered on David, who…
Poem of the Week | Regalement by Aoife Finnegan
Regalement
By Aoife Finnegan
New plant in the sunroom,
small bird floating outside the kitchen window.
I was there that night-
wasn’t I?
Many nights (I was there),
many moons ago.
New mark on my face,…
Original Fiction from Headstuff | The Food Bank
It was 12:39 on Christmas Eve, and I was on my way to buy coffee number three, a pretence allowing me to chat with Agata, the attractive server, in the Wealdstone branch of Wenzel’s.
With her shoulder-length blonde hair and sardonic…