The Real Beauty In Life Is That

Anakana Schofield Is Part Of A New Wave Of Wonderful Irish Fiction-international In Scope And Electrically Alive.

He Felt For A Moment Uncreated. Another Kind Of Awake.

Sometimes We Just Walk Into Something That Is Not For Us At All. We Pretend It Is. We Think We Can Shrug It Off Like A Coat, But It's Not A Coat At All, It's More Like Another Skin. [...] All I Wanted Was To Make My Life Thrilling For A While: To Take The Oridinary Objects Of My Days And Make A Different Argument Out Of Them, No Obligations To My Past.

One Small Cloud, Cast Out By The Herd, Limps Away To The West.

There's A Part Of Me That Thinks Perhaps We Go On Existing In A Place Even After We've Left It.