Paul McMahon

Paul McMahon completed the Masters in Writing at NUI, Galway. His writing work has been published in numerous journals, newspapers and online magazines. His plays have been in the Dublin Fringe Theatre festival and the Muscailt Theatre festival in Galway. He is also a professional musician

Town of Fiction Excerpts

Other Short Stories

The Tenements of Writing

The soul is an old graveyard. Heaped with the bones of a thousand dead lives, a thousand dead names, a thousand dead dreams… joy and suffering…the memory of a thousand women…brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers… They are all buried out there, nameless and forgotten, un-grieved and untended. It is a landscape that has a memory [...]

Burying Ten-to-two-blue

A lot of people that I started off liking, I have grown to hate. It has gone the other way too - I have grown to like some that I hated initially. But not this fella; I hated him from the first time I clapped eyes on him and that’s the way it stayed. People [...]