Scéaleenies
Scéaleenies, noun, plural. A weekly podcast of Irish short stories. Intimate, slightly off-beat. A patent-pending blend of Irish inflection, wit and observation focused on the moment, voices and strangeness of life.
Scéaleenies
Of Mice and Man
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Scéaleenies
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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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 walls begin to speak in scratching sounds and small movements in the night.
A story about property, vermin, and the strange rituals people invent to convince themselves they’re still in control.