Empty House
My poem Soil appeared into the Doire Press anthology (2021) Empty House an anthology of writing responding to the climate crisis edited by Alice Kinsella and Nessa O’Mahony. Together they form a rallying cry of human responses to a systemic problem.
Contributors include Luka Bloom, Niamh Boyce, Jan Carson, Claire Hennessy, Nuala O’Connor, Rick O’Shea, Jessica Traynor and Michael Viney.
Falling Out the Right Tree
A creative non-fiction essay about my experiences growing up queer and getting into the environmental sector. The essay first appeared in Outburst’s queer literary magazine Catflap in November 2021.
“There were two reasons I became a champion tree climber as a child. Firstly, because I loved it, the shapes of the branches and glow of the leaves when the light came through, the whisper of the breeze like the promise of something magical about to happen. Secondly, to prove that I could. I wish I could say that the first reason was always more important, but I spent twenty years of my life structuring my behaviour around what other people expected, even when it was just to do the opposite. So when my brothers said I couldn’t follow them, hand then foot then getting the sturdy branch under your stomach to swing a leg over, I didn’t have a choice.”
Murder on the Eberron Express
Murder on the Eberron Expression is a fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons take on a character driven murder mystery. This 3-5 hour one shot, scaled for level 6 characters, is confined on a moving lightning rail, where the murderer changes each time you run it.
It aims to give you all the fun of a game of Clue with the added pulp noir aeschetiics of D&D’s Eberron setting. It comes with pre-made character archetypes.
Egan Bakker is a foundling from House Cannith, one of Khorvaire’s powerful Dragonmarked Houses, trying to make his way into their good graces. Bakker is an artificer on his way from Sharn to Fairhaven with his family and a suspicious collection of others. On the final day of travel, Bakker is shot and killed with newly invented firearm. The characters must solve the murder before they get to Fairhaven or the killer might escape, and they might be blamed by the Fairhaven guard.
Not to mention the fact that the murderer must be one of them…
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Orla ní Dhúill 