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Submitted to Contest #332
Queenie O’Rourke wrapped her fleshy hands around a scalding mug of herbal tea and watched sheets of wind-thrashed rain sluice against the windows of her home on the river’s edge. A hum-dinger of a storm, she thought. Queenie imagined what a fuss the wind and waves would be kicking up out on the sprawling lake into which the river emptied a couple miles downstream. She sighed with relief that she and Moose had sold their place on that lake a while back and settled on a quieter spot, away from the pounding water that bashed the shoreline in st...
Submitted to Contest #313
CW: Explicit sexual material. In the Galway offices of genealogist Padraig MacChenney, Larry O’Dwyer gazes at the giant map spread out before him.“This is my cue to go shopping,” jokes Larry’s wife, Marnie. “He’s all yours now, Mr. MacChenney.” She laughs and kisses Larry goodbye.“I shall take good care of him, Mrs. O’Dwyer,” says MacChenney. “Happy shopping.”Hard work has delivered Larry to this moment – his own research back in Canada, and the genealogist’s, here in Ireland. Now he stands in the presence of the man who has overseen that wo...
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