My Local Park
Writer Phil Carrick on the death of her mother and how a walk in Tymon Park, Dublin eased her mind and brought some perspective . . .
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Phil was born and raised in Ireland in the 1950’s, enjoying and sometimes enduring a nomadic childhood that saw her family live in various parts of Offaly, Kildare, and Galway. She was educated at both UCD and Trinity College Dublin and spent a full career as a Microbiologist in Dublin Institute of Technology. In 2022 the online writing magazine, Writing.ie, published two of Phil’s memoirs in ‘Mining Memories’. The Galway Review published two of her fiction pieces, The Night Visitor and A Woman in need, in 2020 and 2021 respectively. Phil enjoys writing fiction, short prose, and poetry, and is currently working on a book of short stories.
Stories
The Bicycle Shed
It is 1965, and a black Morris Minor drives slowly towards the school gates. Children are converging from all directions. Most of the pupils…
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Backseat Passenger
In December 2015, a local woman from the outskirts of Portlaoise town contacted car mechanic Larry Kenton to pick up a car from her farmyard…
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The Cardboard Box
In 1957, I was two years old and had three older brothers and my first sister, Anne. My mother had five children under the age of five years…
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The Drownings
We are two years old, me, and the little girl who drowned in the canal. When I close my eyes, darkness surrounds me. I am outside the house…
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A Woman in Need
One Friday afternoon, at about ten minutes past five, I leave my workplace and turn right to head down a Dublin street towards my usual bus…
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The Night Visitor
Tim wished his brother James would just end his friendship with Delores. It was not worth the strife and tension at home. The constant barra…
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