Short Stories and Excerpts
From Fear Sweeney, a completed novel.
The following are a series of excerpts from Fear Sweeney, as well as a few short stories about the characters who appear in the novel (and in the sequel, Terminorum).
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| pookas | "The Four Pookas": Four short stories about the four Irish Pookas. |
capall | "Capall the Dolphin": The love of a woman sends the Pooka Capall to the ocean. |
| lynch | "Lynch's Mob": An Ulsterman discovers that a gift from the Pooka Lynch is rarely a gift. (No spoilers, 1700 words.) |
| macphellimey | "MacPhellimey in the Briar Patch": The story of how the Pooka MacPhellimey got rid of his wife. (No spoilers, 1000 words.) |
| o'gibb | "O'Gibb of the Hill": The Pooka O'Gibb is faced with a problem—it's 1760, and poitín just became illegal. | | |
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