Ruth Finnegan

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“The lost-found family ” by Ruth Finnegan

Submitted to Contest #178

The lost-found family  I am alone. Alone alone alone. Once I had a family, safe in that rocking amniotic ocean, safe, safe, safe. And then I emerged, I flourished, loved by my precious family. What more wonderful. Loved. And we came together, specially, for Christmas. That was then. But they left me. No, that’s wrong, rude hard men took them from me, took them away; raped them, killed them. Guns, storm, fire. Wedding guests bombed from the west, churches razed from the east. Burka’d them out of the way. Oh inhum...

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I am Irish (born and brought up in Derry, then Donegal). I am an anthropologist, love music and nature, also exploring spiritual insights in many media including the extra-sensory. I have three daughters and five grandchildren and now live in Old Bletchley, home of the famous Second World War code breakers in southern England, with my long-time (50+ years) husband and fellow-academic David Murray. In my writing, originally just academic, it has been a real surprise to find myself writing dream-inspired novels and screenplays.These come to me, unplanned, in liminal in-between space as I sleep.