We Shared a Bed but Not a Future

We Shared a Bed but Not a Future

I met him outside Whelan’s on a wet Thursday, the kind of Dublin rain that doesn’t fall so much as settle into your clothes and your mood. He was sheltering under the…
The Night I Chose Lust Over Love

The Night I Chose Lust Over Love

I was twenty-nine, living in a damp little flat off Clanbrassil Street, and engaged to a woman who knew exactly how I took my tea. That sounds like a small thing until…
The Man Who Made Me Feel Alive Again

The Man Who Made Me Feel Alive Again

I was thirty-nine when I first realised grief could make a person invisible. My marriage had ended quietly, without smashed plates or dramatic confessions, just a man at the kitchen table in…
He Was Engaged When We Met

He Was Engaged When We Met

I met him on a wet Thursday evening outside St Stephen’s Green, the kind of Dublin rain that doesn’t fall so much as settle into your bones. I was standing under the…