Lights come up on Matt, wearing a helmet and a shiny space suit. He stares up into the sky as if he were watching fireworks, but they happen to have been the same fireworks for weeks. He clicks on a little tape recorder... A Play.
Category: Fiction
The Golden Child
The sun was dying. The scientists predicted there would be 15 more years of light.
The Earth Exhibit
A play
Here Come Grandfather’s Goats
Ahmed falls from the steel deck thick with diesel oil and malice, through a rain unlike anything he’s known...
Rainforest Child
You wake in a beautiful tranquil place, warm, safe and happy...
Invisible Spoons of Imperceptible Ice Cream
The night before my Bat Mitzvah, slap bang in the middle of the brief Quiet Season, Grandfather Feder appropriates the steambus while the boorish village elders sleep off hunger...
The Parable of the Virus and the Vaccine
Man felt incredibly pleased with himself, sitting as he did, on the very top of the food chain...
Daisy’s Perfect Day
‘Daisy, please come to the front of the classroom and read out your story...'
Ériu, Banba and Fodhla Go to Lanzarote
The sleeping goddesses in the aisle seats would have radiated a celestial emerald light had Banba not cast a protective, dulling shield over the sozzled pair...
Finding Under Difficult Circumstances
By the time you read this anything might have happened. She might have fallen in love by the time you read this. By the time you read this she might be dead. For that’s just how it works. Don’t feel bad for reading. It’s just how things work...