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Danny sat down in his favourite chair by the range, and lit his pipe. “You go where you want, I’m staying put”, he said through a cloud of smoke. “But you have to leave, those wee green bastards are crawling all over the place! They’ve already abducted the Friel’s, doing God knows what kind of

It started like it always did, a sunny afternoon. “In for one, two at the most”. He almost believed his own lies. But the bar filled up with faces, and the table filled up with empties. Before they knew it the afternoon turned to evening, evening to night. Sun to moon. They were lost. Lost

The door had been locked for three hours when a hurried knock came from the outside, and a hush fell over the crowded pub. “…who’s there..?” asked the barman gingerly. “It’s me, it’s Harriet,” came a voice from the other side, “I know he’s in there!” “…no he’s not…” replied the barman, who was by

She had dreamt of this moment every night for nineteen years, and like all dreams the details shift and float, ethereal like a distant fog, never set, but always certain. And it was perfect. The church bells still rang in her ears and in her heart as he drove them along the winding road by