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Ciaran Parkes

Ciaran Parkes lives in Galway, Ireland. His poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Rialto, Poetry Ireland Review, and other places. This is his first published short story.

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I try to subscribe to some mailing list, or maybe enter a secure website, and the inevitable catchpa flashes up, asking me to prove I'm not a robot. Sometimes it's a complicated task, like looking at a series of pictures, and trying to determine which ones contain road signs,…

Sleeping Problems

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