Dear Readers, Listeners and Friends,
Welcome to my web site. I'm a writer and musician who holds a B.A. in Celtic Studies and a M.A. in English. Below you'll find a taste of some of my most recent endeavors; the rest can be found under the Publications and Music and Gigs headings above. I might add that this site is a bit eclectic overall; it's been in publication since 2001, and I'm loathe to remove anything I know visitors are looking for when they come here. So pick around a bit and see what you find!
Thanks for visiting,
Ceallaigh
Forthcoming:
A woman scapegoated by her community runs a magical gauntlet which ends in either freedom or death in the vignette "Casting Sin." Available in Issue #4 of the British magazine Murky Depths, which will be released at the Bristol International Comic Expo on May 11, 2008.
During a far-future Yuletide celebration on a distant moon, a colony of Organic monastics encounters an Augment constructed of nanomachines. But though this Augment bears the power to blight the monastery in the name of the ongoing war between her people and theirs, she comes seeking atonement instead in the short story "Akhila, Divided." Available in the forthcoming anthology Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness from Norilana Books in July, 2008.
When two sisters and a teenage boy develop the same strange longing for products that can only be purchased in nearby gated villages, their parents and their Pagan community come together to solve the puzzle and offer support in the short story "From Our Minds to Yours." Available in The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction: Thirteen Prize Winning Tales from Llewellyn Worldwide in October, 2008.
Recently In Print:
A timeless woman's talent with the harp is remembered in the free verse poem "The Harper." Available in The Lorelei Signal.
A fundamentalist Heathen from the far future visits a planet inhabited by plant-based aliens and learns to communicate in unexpected ways in the alliterative poem "Bringing Woden to the Little Green Men." Available in PanGaia #48.
