Dan of the Galapagos (4 of 7)
BY Monica Walsh
Dan is always the nice guy. He is always the one who does the favours, the one who doesn’t’ get the girl, the one who is last to be chosen and first to be bossed around. But that night in Ropewalk Lane, he walked home a different man.
Is Newfoundland the most Irish place outside Ireland?
BY Marie Stamp
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -George Bernard Shaw “Ah, NewFOUNDland! Sure they speak Gaelic there, don’t they?”…
BINGO
BY Jenina MacGillivray
Troy Gallant had curly chestnut hair, and he was tall. By far, he was the cutest and nicest boy in the neighborhood. He would never try to put the moves on you at the Laundromat while you were folding your underwear, for example.
Lisbon Bureau: Week 2
BY Joan Sullivan
And of course our setting is infusing the writing and imagery, in theme and topics and focus. An unusual period of rain and thunderstorms isn’t keeping us from our explorations and conversations and engagement with our exotic locale.
the harbour mourns fencelessness
BY Allie Duff
how good to be swallowed up to be let in or let out blue expanse spreads the narrows a maw stretching ship-wide the fence stands to guard the ocean from…
NQ is here (in Portugal, that is.)
BY Joan Sullivan
On assignment in Lisbon, city of mad traffic, lovely people, and glorious-ramshackle architecture. Everyone is outside, reading in parks, canoodling around monuments, watching televised rugby matches in bistros four tables…