Acknowledgments

Some stories in this collection have appeared in the following magazines and anthologies: ‘The Stained Glass Violations’ in Passages, ‘A is for Axe’ in Brought to Book (Harper Collins), ‘Thomas Crumlesh’ in the Sunday Tribune and An Anthology of Irish Comic Writing (Michael Joseph), ‘Machine: Part 11’ in the Connacht Tribune and ‘The Occupation’ in Ambit and Best Short Stories 1995 (Heinemann).

The author is grateful for permission to reprint lines from ‘Caffeine’, composed by Bordin, Bottum, Gould, Martin and Patton © 1992 Rondor Music.