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“____________________________ Excerpted from Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa.”
“Ní Ghríofa is also the author of numerous acclaimed books of poetry.”
“Neither home nor sacred space, to her the building felt stuck between states, stubbornly shaking its head.”
“She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Ostana Prize, a Seamus Heaney Fellowship, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.”
“The agent’s voice kept moving onwards, narrating a vision of the home it would become, and she tried to follow this fiction—yes, maybe a sofa would sit here in the amber spell cast by a reading lamp, and yes, maybe this dim nook really would whirr with suds—but her imagination kept stumbling.”
“A bramble scratched her ankle, then held.”
“Mine , she thought in delight.”
“Article continues after advertisement Opening that door had never been easy, since she always seemed to be tangling the key among other things, trying to steer a small scooter over the step while library books shifted and slid against her chest, or fumbling a bin bag and a football and the clammy fingers of a toddler.”
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“She could hear the bell lifting its echo within, but the door didn’t open.”
“No candle, no statue, no altar, no pew—if not for the scale of the windows, those small new rooms wouldn’t feel like a church at all.”
“Turning, she wandered the warren of new rooms, emerging from a walk-in wardrobe to find the agent waiting—time was growing short, was there anything else she’d like to see?”
“Beyond, the chapel stood as it always had, waiting for her to find it.”
“The addition of a raw staircase led to a newly built floor, which let her approach the upper windows.”
“She chose to imagine it clanging elsewhere instead, invisible waves rippling invisible calls to the dead: a summoning.”
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“She counted herself among the many who flinched as they passed that old institution.”
“She picked her way through dim scatterings of debris while her eyes adjusted to the gloom.”
“L As soon as she read it, she knew it was a sign.”
“Lifted from the pavement, that lead spelled a letter in her hand.”