There are seven curses of Quilty. No one agrees on the order.The first is peace.What begins as healing, neighbour speaking to neighbour again, land settling, old grievances loosening, slowly becomes something else. Attent...

A scholar of Irish manuscripts begins to notice a pattern.Not in the text. In the margins.Across centuries, in ink, print, dreams, and now machines, something has been repeating itself. Not a story, but a structure. Not a creature, ...

A tired Dublin father goes out on Christmas Eve to find the one gift his son asked Santa for, a rocking horse he can't afford.After every shop fails him, a strange figure by the canal offers him a beautifully carved hobby horse for free, in...

A man buys a cottage with “great potential,” which is auctioneer language for no heating and mice.What begins as romantic renovation quickly becomes a quiet war. Humane traps become snap traps. Flour becomes surveillance. The wa...

 At his first international conference, funded to the exact punt and sworn not to disgrace the nation, a young Irish scholar begins exchanging chess moves with a mysterious counterpart. The ritual continues for decades across symposia, Fes...