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A wee home for the sporadic words of Northern Irish storyteller, Reb Smyth. Expect big feelings.
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Soft Evidence, September (opens the original)
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If you’re a new subscriber to Thin Places (hi, hello, thank you!!!) Soft Evidence is a roundup that forces me to rummage around in the month’s memories and see if there’s anything small and sparkly worth holding up to the light. And guys, this has been the strangest September of my whole entire life. At the time of writing this, Paddy is in bed sick, so obviously I popped out to get him a delicacy from the Spar hot food counter with healing properties like no other: a big greasy sausage roll. I
My youngest son’s first two-word sentence is “follow me” (opens the original)
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Soft Evidence, Summer Edition (opens the original)
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For the perfect seashell, spotted in a mound of sand on a windy day, the best kind of lottery win. For the same play-park eight days in a row. The same beach five days in a row. The same dinner, pizza and garlic bread, three days in a row. For the safety in repetition. For the smell of salty seaweed, plastic inflatables, charcoal BBQs. And the East Antrim ocean, when it’s so still you could walk on it. For self-permission to sign out. For the little constellation of shoulder freckles that make i
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