Even though your name is there on the SS Cameronia's passenger list: Regina M Keohane, scholar aged eight, of sound mind and body, you were the one sister left behind in Aughnacliffe, along with your Grandda's blue cow and your milk bottle doll. But if you had gone I would not have been born. I … Continue reading ‘Destination: Port of New York, 23 December 1929’ by Maggie Sawkins
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‘The Cord’ by Maggie Sawkins
The Cord When I thought of what she was carrying I imagined it the colour of silt, and if it had eyes then they were the eyes of a fish long out of water. I imagined it soulless, like a stone (a stone cannot haunt one’s dreams), so that if it was taken from us, … Continue reading ‘The Cord’ by Maggie Sawkins
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