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February 22, 2020 - February 6, 2024
turning rigid
sex on his birthday.
How common?
you were sent instead,
trying to remember happiness, a good day, an evening, a kind word. It seems
She waves a cowardly little wave, and you wonder if she will ever forgive you for leaving her there with her husband.
He slows the car and looks over. ‘I did,’ he says. ‘But I wasn’t much use, was I, Sis?’
when he stumbled
A very subtle hint of something.
him. The green eyes are stony and give nothing away.
Again only a hint, enough to raise a question.
you don’t know
stay till evening.’
It had never occurred to him, until now, that Jackson might have known.
Another hint.
It is a clear, resurrected memory that makes him wish he was
And again, three now?
It is warm in his hand, warm from her.
clothed
Why? drunk?
Overhead,
She gives so much information with so few words.
drunk two farms.
Smell of deodorant lingered in her bedroom, a
Ditto re words, she doesn’t have to describe the seduction or any more of the leadup.
It
In true Keegan style it must end in loss (but only if it is a sad story.)
witch-like
Forester's Daughter
She sets it up in the first papra.
are three teenagers, the milking and the mortgage.
imagine her there buttering swede, patching his trousers, hanging
his house was empty.
fried potatoes and a pair of eggs dried out in the oven.
strike a match and write his name.
Sowing a seed.
Martha
plucking unlikely stories like green plums
bank
Ditto.
gun
trees
shoot
Why?
whose father has never given her so much as a tender word,
she says nothing.
Setting up possible heartbreak.
the salesman’s hands felt, compared to Deegan’s.
Answers a questtion from the back of the reader's mind.
Martha waited for the blood
So distilled but you immediately know what she means.
early stars are shining of their own accord.
??
he
Heavy Anthropomorphism and p64.
day. Always a part of her craves the solitude that will let her mind calm down and her memory surface.
Keegan is not averse to telling what the characters think and she’s not afraid of creating unsympathetic characters.
Judge
No, no. Is this connected with Irish folk tradition?
opens the seam and looks at her money.
He would like to wake her and tell her now of his dream. He would like sometimes to carry her away from this place and tell her what is on his mind and start all over again.
But he never does tell her about his dreams. She knows of none, he knows of none of hers.
paw the windows.
Ireland. She’ll eat liver and onions for her breakfast. They
Again, dreams not shared.
never found anyone who’d buy him.
Red herring.
flask and sandwiches, Deegan regrets what happened with the dog but most of the time it doesn’t cross his mind. The consequences, not their origin, strain him most for his wife no longer speaks to him, no longer sleeps at his side.
‘Dip to your own side, Betty!’ he mimics. There is a little laughter and, in the laughter, a little menace.
Nasty stuff.
plains
they arrived. She got out and gasped at the bald sun sinking down
On the east coast?
stopped the car. Then she climbed in and spent the rest of her life
Brilliant Why this fb?
married
...?.
