About Claire Keegan: Claire Keegan is an Irish writer known for her award-winning short stories.
Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.
I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.
It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.
My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.
As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.
