Elske Rahill
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Being Various: New Irish Short Stories
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2019
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6 editions
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Dubliners 100: Fifteen New Stories Inspired by the Original
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2014
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5 editions
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An Unravelling
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In White Ink
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2018
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5 editions
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Between Dog and Wolf
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2013
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9 editions
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A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance
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2015
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3 editions
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The Dublin Review, Number 47: Summer 2012
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The Dublin Review, Number 42: Spring 2011
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“Her children are pulling her thin. Each of them, as they left her body, tugged a part of her with them out into another life. She is divided by each of them. She will die like the mint plant at the end of the garden. Last spring, its babies sprouted out from its roots, and all through the summer, the mother plant remained, a bunch of dry yellow twigs. She never dug it out.”
― An Unravelling
― An Unravelling
“For now, they are surviving. But he has given up too much. When their children are grown there will be a reckoning.”
― An Unravelling
― An Unravelling
“Making a marriage work, her mother had told her, was largely about learning to like things that might at first seem tiresome. ‘And the secret,’ she said, ‘to a really happy marriage is to make him believe he is in control.”
― In White Ink
― In White Ink
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