The Case

by Mark Dooley

A short story in scenes.

The kid's guitar case is missing. Not the guitar, just the case and a notebook with the songs he's been working on. No big thing to me, but he's willing to cover the bar tab to find it. Dow we go into the valley to troll through the suburbs to find his case and put the world aright.


Photo by Eberhard Grossgasteiger

Kindle Edition

Published November 28, 2022

About the author

Mark Dooley is an Irish philosopher, writer, journalist, public speaker and academic. He is also a regular radio broadcaster and guest of TV shows, and has in addition served as a speech writer. He has led a journalistic and an academic career simultaneously. He is a specialist of continental philosophy, philosophy of religion and theology. He wrote a study of Søren Kierkegaard's ethical, religious and cultural insights, and then moved on to interrogating conceptions of God and ethics, which led to the publication of two collections of essays. He then published a monograph on Roger Scruton and a collection of Scruton's texts, and was called by the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland to write about the ways forward for the Irish Catholic Church in the wake of the abuse revelations. In Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming, he develops his own philosophy and outlines his intellectual journey for the first time. Meanwhile, he is also a regular guest on the Irish radio and a columnist. [Wikipedia]