Conor Darrall
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Short stories, poetry and some burble . Irish traditional musician, medieval swords guy, draoi and strange egg. Bipolar/ADD/CPTSD/Brain Damage. Currently querying my novel 'The Forgotten 47' - @conordarrall / www.conordarrall.com
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Cup of Blood, Renew these Fallow Lands
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. “I can always refuse,” said Kajori. She looked straight out through the thick, smoked glass, and stared with a frozen face at the land beyond the compound. “I can withhold consent.”
By Conor Darrall3 years ago in Fiction
Conny Reviews 'A Prince for Christmas'
FILM REVIEW A Prince for Christmas (2015, Fred Olen Ray) Ubiquitous to the point of tropehood, the 'marry a prince' genre of romantic movie has a storied and chequered past. Often poorly-written and shot on low budget, these modern fairytales have been a mainstay of festive watch-lists since images first moved. As part of my anthropological studies into this phenomenon, I set out to watch a film that truly encapsulates this wonderful genre.
By Conor Darrall3 years ago in Humans
Stolen blue people in transit
The Black One's harbour. Stolen Blue souls wait to board. Rain-soaked shackles grind. ---- (In the Irish language, dark-skinned or black people are described as 'blue'. Gorm is the word for blue, and daoine gorma (blue people) is used to refer to Afro-Caribbean folk.
By Conor Darrall3 years ago in Poets
After Red Face
Clown in bathroom stall, Searches arm in the blue-light, Cannot find a vein. --- --- --- --- --- (This is inspired by a plot point in my short horror story 'Red Face'. I like the idea of taking an inciting incident or twist and trying to distil it for this challenge. CD)
By Conor Darrall3 years ago in Poets
