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Paraic O'Donnell | Writer. Lives in a very small way.

Paraic O’Donnell

  • Riverhead

    September 11, 2001 I. Even the Long Island Expressway this far east, feels lulled and rapt:…

  • Twist

      Done right, it is a footfall–torn awry. A stone, hinged from known earth gives onto…

  • Neurology

      In the picture on the left, a healthy volunteer begins the day with a brisk…

  • Dragons

    Dragons

      By midsummer, her nights are livid. She hears, now as then, the water speak in…

  • The Exodus of Calvita: Part X

    INT. Day (MS) A corridor. O’RINGTONE, wearing a loincloth, is limbering up, ignored by an imposing…

  • The Exodus of Calvita: Part IX

    VERY SLOW FADE IN FROM BLACK: EXT. Night (VLS) The high Spurgolian plains are a constellation…