Ger Duffy

Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.

Aisha lives at a centre for asylum-seekers in Ireland in a state of ongoing uncertainty. Having fled Nigeria after a violent gang murdered members of her family, she is desperately trying to find some degree of permanency, where she and her mother can be reunited and live without fear. As she navigates the complex legal system to seek settlement in Ireland, she sparks an unlikely friendship with Conor, a new guard at the centre. A former prisoner, Conor’s life experience and calming presence resonate with Aisha, allowing for a tentative romance to begin. But the bond between the pair comes under strain as the threat of deportation looms ever larger.

Sisters September and July share an intense bond, speaking in a secret language and keeping the outside world at a distance. After September is suspended from school, their mother brings them to a remote house on the Irish coast—where July begins to resist her sister’s increasingly sadistic control.

When dysfunctional adult Al Clancy mistakenly agrees to mind his smart-ass 10-year-old nephew Karl for a week, his job and home are placed in jeopardy. In a bold bid to save Al’s job, they steal his mam’s camper van, become best friends, and embark on a criss cross adventure, putting up posters all over Ireland. When things go wrong and the lads get cranky, one of them realises that the other one needs to grow up.

A teenage girl roams the streets trying to buy alcohol. Then she gets desperate...

A short story of friendship and Imagination.