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Badlands

Just back from a wonderful week of creative writing teaching in Tyrone. If you've never been to Tyrone before let me tell you it is a beautiful county and thoroughly unspoilt. It's great walking country and quite a few threatened bird and animal species are thriving in this part of Ireland. I had no internet access during this time so nice to see that a new short story of mine is now up and running on the Wordlegs journal:

http://www.wordlegs.com/magazine/issue3.php

This story (or a version of) appears in my new short story collection, Badlands.

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  1. Rachel FentonAugust 9, 2010 at 12:21 AM

    Really good story. I liked the build up, the broodingness, the descriptions of the land..it felt real.


    Cool list of credits you've got yourself, too.

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  2. JAKI MCCARRICKAugust 9, 2010 at 5:41 AM

    Thanks Rachel! I'm sorry I've done this delayed comment publishing thing but I was getting a lot of spam. By the Black Field is a very early story of mine that I've just tried to shape up into a workable piece. It works best in creating an odd kind of mood I think. I like it for that. The version in my new collection is shorter. Hope you're well!

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  3. Rachel FentonAugust 15, 2010 at 9:16 PM

    I'm looking forward to getting your collection shortly. Will be interesting to see the difference in the story here.

    No worries, re: spam - it takes me so long to get around blog land anyhow.

    I'm good, thanks - hope you're well too :)

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