Conor Darrall

Joined June 2021

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Short-stories, poetry and random scribblings. Irish traditional musician, sword student, draoi and strange egg. Bipolar/ADD. Currently querying my novel 'The Forgotten 47' - @conordarrall / www.conordarrall.com

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at length evening comes. Runner-Up in Villanelle Challenge.
Where landscape steals from steel-cold, frozen, cloud, A smoky glen, with gentle, noble sheep; I greet the dead with nods and smiles, aloud.
By Conor Darrall7 months ago in Poets
Farewell to the Houseguest . Top Story - December 2023. Content Warning.
for Æ...go deo, and for anyone who needs to read it. What a simple wee ruse, just to lay down the tools, I had clutched in my Hands,
By Conor Darrall8 months ago in Psyche
There's a light I hold before me . Content Warning.
May the ghosts that howled ‘round the house at night / Never keep you from your sleep / May they all sleep tight down in hell tonight / Or wherever they may be... [Lullaby of London : MacGowan, 1988]
By Conor Darrall8 months ago in Beat
Copperplate with Patina.
Hope can be lost within, without acknowledgment, and you can usually limp on with life for a while. It is a fractured and cold existence, yes, but an existence nonetheless.
By Conor Darrall8 months ago in Fiction
Cumbersation
May it please the Court of the Silent Cardrive Home: I shall identify myself as 'A', and your brother-in-law Mick, whom I hold responsible, as 'B':
By Conor Darrall9 months ago in Fiction
A Treasury of New Words and Terms for Burned-Out (Adult) Children. Top Story - November 2023. Content Warning.
Greetings and Welcome, language lovers. Following the Neolomicro Challenge, I was left with a lot of bizarre definitions that I thought might give some of you a chuckle. These are the offcuts that I ran out of time / inclination to pursue. I hope you enjoy them, and that they can be the start of a glorious new dictionary for these beleaguered times.
By Conor Darrall9 months ago in Fiction
Culpabumble. Runner-Up in the Neolomicro Challenge.
"Colin, can you come in here please?" Three months in the office, and Jared was still getting my name wrong, despite sitting three meters away from me, separated by the brushed glass wall obscuring his lower half. I found that feature of the wall comforting. Jared was a creep. He peered out from his leadership nook like a meerkat.
By Conor Darrall9 months ago in Fiction
Aromescence
She affected me like atmospheric pressure at first, almost a tickle behind the ears and heart. 14 years since we had met in person. Our odd-hours, online reconnection as much a dissociated dream as a reality; as much a theosophical possibility as a tangible life-path. A concept instead of a thing.
By Conor Darrall9 months ago in Fiction
Crunchstumble Covenant
Wish for something better step-tap-groan step wish for something better step-tap-groan step I'm an old man this late afternoon. The stick gives a hollow clunk, like the hammer of a xylophone striking the London streets.
By Conor Darrall9 months ago in Fiction
Of Three Faces
“Three-fold battle Goddess / Hear our plaintive rhyme /Guide us to your wisdom /In these dark and evil times…" "Guys, no, we shouldn't be doing it like this."
By Conor Darrall9 months ago in Fiction
Heel slip
Fully expected, As far as I allow Expectations to form. -- So familiar, A click into The usual furrows And the motion,
By Conor Darrall11 months ago in Poets
We all burn away. Top Story - July 2023.
What will we roam once this is all gone? (Near gone as it is now.) What is our home? And who will we tell, at the end of all life,
By Conor Darrallabout a year ago in Poets

Conor Darrall

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at length evening comes. Runner-Up in Villanelle Challenge.

Farewell to the Houseguest . Top Story - December 2023. Content Warning.

There's a light I hold before me . Content Warning.

Copperplate with Patina.

Cumbersation

A Treasury of New Words and Terms for Burned-Out (Adult) Children. Top Story - November 2023. Content Warning.

Culpabumble. Runner-Up in the Neolomicro Challenge.

Aromescence

Crunchstumble Covenant

Of Three Faces

Heel slip

We all burn away. Top Story - July 2023.

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Farewell to the Houseguest . Top Story - December 2023. Content Warning.

There's a light I hold before me . Content Warning.

Copperplate with Patina.

Cumbersation

A Treasury of New Words and Terms for Burned-Out (Adult) Children. Top Story - November 2023. Content Warning.

Culpabumble. Runner-Up in the Neolomicro Challenge.

Aromescence

Crunchstumble Covenant

Of Three Faces

Heel slip

We all burn away. Top Story - July 2023.

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at length evening comes. Runner-Up in Villanelle Challenge.