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 [...]
Paul McMahon
Paul McMahon holds an MA in Writing from NUI, Galway.
His writing has been published in Southword, Crannog,
Ropes, Alor et toi, The 2nd Hand and The Sligo Weekender.
He was a finalist in the Listowel Writers Week, slam fiction, 2010.
His plays have been performed at The Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival,
The Muscailt Theatre festival, Galway, and at The Hothouse New Writing, Belfast.
He is also a professional musician, songwriter, music composer and producer.
His music can be heard at: www.myspace.com/fredsplendid
Town of Fiction Excerpts
Other Short Stories
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 [...]