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On the Spine of Time
She smelled of citrus and line-dried laundry
Soft as a willing surrender
Now, I wake with iron and rain
storms clenched in my teeth
winter-worn, feral
Pressed into a silence
that outlived us
carving out her voice
Thirsty. I drink the desolate hours whole
tall on the backbone of tomorrow
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“Dear Cousin” was shortlisted for the 2025 Best in Rural Writing Contest by judge Jamie Guiney. Learn more about the contest here.
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Dear Cousin,
For the past few nights I have been lying awake at night remembering our conve...
“He could feel her love yesterday and tomorrow” is the heartwarming line that captures motherhood’s endless love in Heather Fellin Tierney’s novel about rural life, If the Train Arrives (2025 Vine Leaves Press).
Set along the Hiawatha rail line that weaves its way beside the Mississippi Riv...
This is how Leanna Holt learned to pray: with a finger on the trigger.
“Easy, son,” her father would whisper, when they were shooting cans in the backyard, back when she was maybe seven or eight. He would correct her form just a little, and then together, they’d take a deep breath. She would exhale and pull the trigger. This was prayer for the Holt boys, back when she ...
The Planter’s Daughter is a complex and compelling novel. It is a starting off point for a brand new mystery series and, at the same time, introduces readers to Keane and Xiao, two detectives working for An Garda Síochána in Cork.
Although the crime at the centre of the book drives the plot and sparks many twists and revelations, it is the personal s...