Leaving

‘They wait at the lights. The way he presses the button on the pedestrian crossing is slow and deliberate. She shivers. If he was her husband, he would put an arm around her, rub briskly up and down her back to warm her up. But he is not her husband.’

Fiction 5th June 2025

Claire Gleeson

Claire Gleeson is from Dublin, where she lives with her young family and works as a GP. Her debut novel, Show Me Where It Hurts, was a runner up at the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2023, and was published by Sceptre in April 2025.