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Careful What You Wish For: A Collection of Short Stories Kindle Edition

by Fergal O Byrne (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A collection of award winning and critically acclaimed short stories by Fergal O'Byrne.
The stories cover a vast array of subjects: the fragile and ephemeral existence of life, the use of robotic technology to assist a paraplegic to walk across America, the effects of extreme cold and starvation on researchers in Antarctica, a love story from an immortal human to his deceased daughter, the use of Bernoulli’s Theorem to soothe a scientist bringing home his dead sister’s ashes from America, an other-worldly, perfectly mathematical cube stalking random people, and finally, the dystopian tale of life after a man-made black hole has nearly destroyed our civilisation!
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  1. Print length
    75 pages
  2. Language
    English
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  4. Publication date
    18 Aug. 2022
  5. File size
    1.3 MB
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About the Author

Fergal O'Byrne is an award-winning writer for print, stage and screen. His debut novel Trolley Ride in Manhattan (Mentor Books, 2000) has become a cult classic. In 2022 his short story Sweetpea was a 3rd Place Winner of the prestigious Colm Tóibín International Short Story Award and another Ribeye was Longlisted for the prestigious Alpine Fellowship 2020. In 2020 Fergal's award winning play Extremophiles received its world premiere in Copenhagen by the renowned That Theatre Company. This was followed by the second play of his Location Trilogy Rub-a-dub-dub, which premiered in early 2022, also in Copenhagen. The third play of the trilogy, Same Shit Different Planet, was staged in Copenhagen in Jan/Feb 2023. His previous stage work has garnered multiple awards, including; A Dragon's Tale (Eamon Keane Award 2013), Folie-a-Deux (Listowel 2015) and Extremophiles (Eamon Keane Award 2018, Papatango 2018 and NEWvember Festival 2017). He has also written several radio plays aired by Ireland's national broadcaster, RTÉ.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B985KJ1Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Watermark Publishing
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 18 Aug. 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.3 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 75 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Kathy Green
    5.0 out of 5 stars Eternal Love as a Physics Problem
    Reviewed in the United States on 4 November 2022
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    I don’t even pretend to understand short stories, but “Careful What You Wish For,” Fergal O’Byrne’s brainly collection, is even more inscrutable than usual. His characters are especially fond of Barber’s Adagio for Strings (especially the coda); and Fergal treats us to advanced physics in every story. Adagio for Strings has so many unanticipated suspensions it feels like it’s in a minor key, but they always resolve to C major, and I can see why the author associates the long, gently evaporating final strains of the coda with infinity. Is O'Byrne layering the adagio over Michio Kaku’s colorful explanation of string theory, to express the imponderable puzzle of death and the stubborn hope of eternal life? Honestly, I have no idea. But I am a sucker for a love story, and I was haunted by the depth of passion in these tales, each of which is about “the coda,” or an eternity that is felt if not provably by the theory of everything.
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