Fionn Mallon

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Cute Town
Rebecca found Sal’s Diner in much the same state she remembered leaving it. Cracked vinyl booths, dirty windows with handprints, and a chimney that sported a thick bib of creosote. A few patrons spun idly on vintage bar stools, while a stooped and aged fry cook stood next to a sizzling grill, his attention elsewhere. Rebecca strolled in and seated herself in a corner booth next to the dirtiest window she could find.
By Fionn Mallon5 years ago in Fiction
Touching Pitch
Lydia’s little sister, Calliope, was living proof that while you could march a girl to church fifty two times a year, you couldn’t make a saint out of her, not with all the leather in the world. And they had certainly tried.
By Fionn Mallon5 years ago in Fiction
A Very Complicated Soup
When a plant has an insufficient root system to support its desired growth, horticulturalists will often graft it to another, fusing its roots with those of a hardier specimen, allowing the initial plant to grow to its fullest and most pronounced potential. Sometimes, a phenomenon occurs known as a graft chimera, when some tissue from the root plant takes hold in the other, traveling up and expressing itself in new fusions of color and fruit. I believe this is nature’s way of showing, in vivid relief, that what you pick up along the way becomes part of who you are.
By Fionn Mallon5 years ago in Wander
Toward Ardara
I told Fionn we were headed somewhere safe. He just nodded, eyes full of sleep. It never ceases to amaze me how much my son trusts my every word. Not only that I would take him somewhere safe - of course I would. But he trusted without so much as his usual ‘why?’.
By Fionn Mallon5 years ago in Fiction