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I take two cans from the fridge and put them into a tote bag with a book of short stories. Each story in this collection fits the profile of a particular type of Irish short story writing. There are no stories shorter than eleven pages in length, but none are longer than twenty-three pages. Each one represents a central character who possesses an acute sense of…
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As long as you are seeking employment,
you will be furnishing this man with 115% of your income.
Still, you are one of the lucky ones. You used to work with
someone who described how their landlord would quiz
them about their sexual habits in the same tone you might
use to speak about an unreliable appliance.
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you will be furnishing this man with 115% of your income.
Still, you are one of the lucky ones. You used to work with
someone who described how their landlord would quiz
them about their sexual habits in the same tone you might
use to speak about an unreliable appliance.
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…of their own ordinariness but also a yearning to move somewhere beyond it, albeit without a clear understanding of what doing so might mean. The climax of each story is the point at which their inability to do so becomes most apparent and this occurs in some manner that is symbolically coherent or ironic. Whether the author comes down on one side or the other seems to depend on the amount of contempt the author has succeeded in fostering in the reader. I became bored of this particular genre of story while doing my degree. We had to read a lot of them in classes on marketing Irish writing, but having graduated I have begun to enjoy them again for their repetitiveness and familiarity, watching a cosmic punishment befall the same type of oblivious person has become a way of walking alongside myself.
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