a seal to reorient

You’ve set your timer on the meditation app, rolled out your mat along the riverview window. You haven’t meditated in months, and when you’ve tried, you can’t stay present more than a minute. Bell pings keep your eyes darting back to your desk, and you’re reminded to pause all notifications. You hate you’re still holdingContinue reading ” a seal to reorient”

Relegated Vessels

[a redraft from the story, A Relegated Ship, Run Aground, included in Strangely Fierce Fables] She is a rusted merchant ship, the oldest remaining in Ireland, moored to rest along the banks of the Grand Canal. She’s named the Naomh Éanna. Completed in Dublin’s Liffey Dockyard in 1958, sailing in her prime as an AranContinue reading “Relegated Vessels”