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Book Review: A Good Girl's Guide To Murder

Book Review: A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder

By Alex Rosado It had been a while since I picked up a book and actually finished it. For the past years, most books have been a deception, no matter what the reviews said.  Two weeks ago, I decided to try my luck again. I wandered into the book section of my grocery store – I know bookstores are better, but there’s none around me. There, I saw A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, by Holly Jackson. I…

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I don't need to come out

I don’t need to come out

By Anonymous I don’t need to come out. Some days I think it’s too late, others I’m just scared. I know the people I love won’t react badly, but I’m not sure I’m ready to share that piece of me with them yet.  I don’t need to come out, right? I’ve always heard everyone has their own timing, and I guess I’m a late bloomer on the matter. It’s not like I discovered it recently – I’ve known for…

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I Hated Guns, Then I Moved To America

Growing up in France guns were never on my mind. Today, living in the United States, it's a reality I can't escape.

By Alex Rosado This is yet another title I never thought I would write. Growing up in France, even in the suburbs of Paris, guns were never on my mind. I was almost 21 years old when I saw one for the first time.  We would hear about shootings in the United States every couple of years. It happened mostly in schools, and even though we would deplore the lack of change, I was never scared to go…

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Picking My Squad to Play New Zealand

Picking My Squad to Play New Zealand

by Mark Comerford I must admit, as we edged ever closer to this Irish tour of New Zealand, I was becoming increasingly adamant that the phantom midweek games against the New Zealand Māori were destined not to happen. I had my fantasy squad of 36 players all lined up, ready for three test matches against the All Blacks. Then, last Monday evening, while scrolling through Twitter, I was stopped in…

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What are we looking for? Any work you feel proud of and would like to share. Poems, fictions, essays, articles … send them our way!

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Searching For More: Am I a writer yet?

Alexiane opens up about her journey as a writer and the doubts along the way. What does it mean to be a writer, and how to know we are one yet?

“There is a fine line between fiction and reality, sometimes blurred by our perceptions. Writing a story is a game of finding the truth. It’s not because you imagined your characters that you know everything there is to know about them instantaneously. It takes time to get to know their stories.” When does someone become a writer? It’s a complicated journey, unique to every aspiring writer, yet most can relate to these words. 

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Beware the Wild Shadow

Fiadh’s world is turned upside down the day her parents get into an accident. Now with killers chasing her, and a long lost sister coming back to tell her her whole life is a lie—things are a…

Every family has its secret, but some are deadly... 

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Donations

In this Margaret Atwood/Kazuo Ishiguro inspired short, we see how far society will go to serve justice

“I tell myself I wasn’t always bad. As a child, bad things happened around me, and over time, these things began to sink into me. They rise up your body, like ivy, cultivating beneath your skin, and they harbour within your blood, like boats bobbing on a pier.”

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I’m Not Good With Words

A poem, by Clíona Perrick

“A low murmur, followed by a blushing face, I freeze and quickly change the subject Why can’t I spit it out? “

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Defining Moment

What is a defining moment? To me, what defines a person are all the “impact” moments – the ones you didn’t see coming and didn’t wait for. The moments something happens that…

“What defines someone? The heartaches or the happiness? A bit of both? Aren’t we all broken and the strongest around? “

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Bedtime Stories

Amongst the crashing of furniture and the rushing of water, one mother tries to tell her children one last bedtime story.

A heartbreaking story of motherly love 

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Some places and people leave a mark on our lives that lives on, blurred only by the nostalgia of happiness and longing to go back.

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The Man With No Face

Join Mr. Townsend on his daily routine of encountering The Man With No Face.

A tale of bizarre and unsettling...

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Take Care

The happiest moments in life don’t always come during special occasions. Sometimes they come after the darkness leaves.

A feel-good read about life and knowing to appreciate happy moments. Getting better is a process in which each step is important, and happiness is a road, not a destination. 

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Developing Rugby Into New, Emerging Markets

If World Rugby are serious about growing the game, their approach needs to change. The success of the 2019 World Cup in Japan must be the beginning, not the end.

“55 million. That’s how many people in Japan watched their final pool game against Scotland in the 2019 Rugby World Cup. 55 million. The most watched game of rugby of all time.“

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Athena’s Revenge: Part 2

Medusa finally has everything lined up, all players accounted for. Step one is ready and she couldn’t be happier. Finally she could begin her mission of enacting Athena’s revenge. Good things reall…

“ Medusa had spent the past month making sure she had all the details just right. Google had provided her with a lot of the necessary information. All it took was batting her eyelashes, befriending some criminals, and asking questions to find out the rest. “

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Into Fantasy

When Charlotte found an old, glowing book at her job in a bookstore, she didn’t expect to be transported to a world full of fairytale characters. But hey, doesn’t everyone want their life to be a f…

‘I never lost that love of reading though. I would research the different fairytales when the thought of them popped in my head. The original stories were a lot darker then my child self would have believed, but that just made them better. My first and current job was in a bookshop, which let me be surrounded by books, their characters and plots again.’