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Making friends with a dragon

My Dragon One day as I was walk­ing I passed a secret cave carved in a moun­tain face, so I decided to go in. Inside the cave I heard a roar. I got a lit­tle scared but I kept going. Now I could see some­thing red. I wanted to run back but I was too […]

Fine & Mellow: “Anything I do sing, it’s a part of my life.”

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, goin to church, being very happy. There’s twokinds of blues; there’s happy blues and there’s sad blues. I don’t think I ever sang the same way twice. I don’t think I ever sang the same tempo. One night it is a lit­tle bit slower, […]

A butterfly swarm

When I still believed in fairies, I walked alone up a moun­tain in the west of Ire­land, the bog slip­ping away as I pushed along a faint trail past a hid­den lake and beyond a stony ridge. I believed I was some­one who walked alone in the wild, but I wasn’t. I was in a fevered […]