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Dermot O'Sullivan

Dermot O'Sullivan is from Dublin, Ireland. He studied English Literature in Trinity College, Dublin. His work has been published in various journals including The Honest Ulsterman, Causeway/Cabhsair, The Dalhousie Review and Fence. He currently lives in Brazil, where he recently had his first full-length play produced.

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Short Fiction

A selection of my writings

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"And he keeps relighting his cigarette even though it has never once gone out, and he looks down at the ground and then into my eyes and smiles, and then up at the sky, and my bones and sinews and every inch of my flesh is yearning to clasp him to me he is so beautiful, so cute, so tender, so kind."

 "The two men did not speak as they crossed the park. For now the burden of silence was unbreakable. They had this afternoon to spend together, but they had already said everything that they needed to say, and they had said all these things many years ago."

"It always goes like this. I wake, dress and head out for my morning coffee, intending to bask for an hour or so in the noon sun and read my book, but no sooner have I finished my espresso than the peristaltic machine roars to life, the dose of caffeine having woken it from its overnight slumber, and I find myself obliged to wince and writhe my way through what was supposed to be a period of tender relaxation."

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