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‘I sit in my van and let it idle for a while, allowing the gentle hum of the engine to settle me. I take several deep breaths in. I don’t know why this has unnerved me so much. It is such a silly meaningless thing.’

Fiction 1st February 2022

Ancestral

Fiction Issue 40, Volume 2: Summer 2019

Louise Hegarty

Louise Hegarty has had work published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee, The Tangerine, and The Dublin Review. Her short story ‘Getting the Electric’, originally published in The Stinging Fly, has been optioned by Fíbín Media. She is based in Cork.