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Vampires in Garvagh

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

The possible origin of Bram Stoker’s Dracula may have come from this tale which he had access to when a archivist in Dublin.

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The Ravens under the hill

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

An ancient Celtic goddess is reborn into a living modern woman when innocent blood is split. A tale of retribution and battered sausages

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Monkey Puzzle Trees

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

I remember family picnics in Downhill Forest amd oh being 10 and invincible.

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Always carry a trowel

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

I think about creation and hope and gardening

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The soul of the table

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

I think about food and how it is part of the circle of everyone’s lives

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Sadhbh and the dragon

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

A story about the Irish giant Finn MacCool’s wife and a Dragon

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The Children of Lír

Posted on November 15, 2025November 17, 2025 by admin

A retelling of the Irish Story of The Children of Lir

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Aengus and Dagada

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

A retelling of why LOVE and TIME are intimately related and how the ancient people of Ireland had a myth that explained it

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When Beams Cross

Posted on November 15, 2025December 13, 2025 by admin

A story about 2 antithetical people who find they have body swapped in a new teleportation device, one a liberal reverend the other the secretary of defense

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The Teach Bán Light

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

A fable about the drive for modernity and how it sometimes is not either necessary or a good thing .. and lighthouses

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