“The Bateson Children” ” ‘Goodness! You look like father.”You look like father.”Haw haw. You both look like father.”So do you.’ “in “What Could be Carried: Writing of the Ulster Museum” “The...
“The elves have decorated the kitchen by the time I come down to rinse out my soup flask.My phone vibrates. Matilda. Aeroplane emoji and two glasses clinking. Good for her.’Hey there.’ An elf appears through the door with a box of...
“We’re the best, so we are, are we not, be the hokey doke. Sure you’d hardly know a wake from a wedding. Doesn’t a good one of these beat a good one of anything. In Dicey’s Lounge, amid the cousins, trapped in a round that started with four of us and since...
