Pat's SHORT WRITINGS
Here you will find links to my published short works: fact, fiction, poetry. Hope you enjoy the read. Thanks for visiting. Sign my guestbook and please come back again. I'd offer you a beer, or a Guinness, or a coke or a coffee for those who don't indulge in adult beverages but, so far, we haven't figured out how to accomplish that in a world of virtual reality ...the virtual pub! Wouldn't that be great!
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Bloom lay in bed looking out of that window, seeing the bougainvillea frame a picture of two golfers at the fifth tee. He wasn’t a golfer himself and he often wondered why he had chosen to live in the middle of a golf course. But he had to remind himself that he hadn’t made the choice alone. They had made it together. She said that it would be better than living over on the beach or downtown. At least he was closer to the office here and they could use the golf course for their morning walks. Besides, she said it would be nice to be able to look out on the green grass.
Idyllic. That’s the way it was supposed to be. Or that’s the way she pretended it would be. Here they could forget the past and start over again. But that had been wishful thinking. They couldn’t leave the past behind. It was part of them. Where they went, it went too.
..read the full story in the WRITER'S POST JOURNAL, Dec 2004:
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You Always Wondered
by Pat Mullan
You know there was no-one in the bedroom when you felt your way
in the darkness to the toilet. They say there's a cold feeling in the air
when there's another presence in the room but you convinced
yourself that it was natural to feel a cold chill in January.
She didn't stir on her side of the bed...
..read the rest of this story in the Electric Acorn magazine of the
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Read my latest science fiction short story (..the beginning of my sci-fi novel): THE FACSIMILE in Volume 1, Issue 4 of TALES OF THE TALISMAN. Just click the cover above and you will be taken to the publisher's bookstore. Thank you!
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