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Peter OReilly

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Tears and Glass Houses

Submitted to Contest #294

Tears and Glass Houses Seamus Galvin is up and out earlier than usual. Early March birdsong and a restless mind drive him out from the leaba. He closes the back door gently, not to wake his father. In the yard, a fox arrows in behind an outhouse.   Too early to break the morning silence with machines and labour, he walks out to the main road in front of the house and stands. Across the road, the N70 stretch of The Wild Atlantic Way, lays the Galvin's land as it rolls down in mounds, boulders and furze in some six hectares of missh...

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