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The Kingdom of the Cavan Strawberries |2|
Last week on The Kingdom of the Cavan Strawberries, Paddy, B-Man, and Sound-Man travelled to Newgrange through one of Paddy's mystic portals. Their task: to keep the Anti-Craic, a device capable of sucking the craic out of anything, out of…
The Kingdom of the Cavan Strawberries |1|
Rain drip-dropped onto the concrete like that stupid broken tap out the back of my house as B-Man parked his Beemobile (A yellow Fiat Seicento with, naturally, black go-faster stripes) outside Paddy’s house. It was the third Friday of the…
Christian Grey Goes To His Nephew’s Birthday Party In A Bowling Alley
Christian Grey shifted restlessly in his seat. His seat was in his helicopter which he owned because he was very rich. The helicopter had been circling the bowling alley for thirty minutes. There was no landing pad for a helicopter in this…
The Obstructed View Of Danger
Bee-man and Paddy, Master of the Fourth Dimension, stood on the rooftop of the Clarion hotel, surveying the city which was theirs to defend against evil, by general agreement.
“Tis fairly cauld tonight isn’t it?” said Paddy a rollie…
John Garrison in ‘Dressed and Ready’
Garrison glanced at his phone. 7:45am.
He sat perched on the edge of his bed - tense and uneasy. It was still dark outside. His smart trousers chaffed against his more than amble crotch, while his starchy shirt heaved and gritted its…
A Woman In Mourning
It was a typically mild day when I arose from an unusually deep slumber. Not especially warm, or cold. Steps of a usual morning routine followed one after another, stretch, yawn, crack a few joints that shouldn’t audibly crack, check my…
Man Tired After Valentine’s Day Drama
A Bit of Galway News
Including a cautionary note for the younger members of the public, warning them they should be merry – but not too merry – this Valentine’s Day.
Young Toby Tiernan of Number 43 Watson Road, Galway, is not exactly…
A New Star Is Born
Out of the Highland mist emerged three camels. Their riders, white bearded men wearing oriental gowns and turbans, were quarrelling.
'You may be a wise man, Balthazar, but you skipped the geography classes, didn't you?' Melchior lashed…
There’s a Cat in my Garden
I bet you like cats don't you?
Well why wouldn't you? You've grown up with them on your TV being all cute and mischievous, that loveable petty criminal Top Cat, Garfield with his love of lasagne and hatred of Mondays and then there’s…
Sna
When a snake suddenly decides to bolt under the mower as you're cutting the grass the least it could do is have the common courtesy to be chopped into a thousand tiny pieces. Not so yesterday. This particular snake comes out the other side…