Den dere’s de no sex. Ya might
be in fer six months an get out after three, but ya’re
dyin fer a shag after a couple a days. Dey’re
supposed ta put some crap in yur food ta stop ya wantin
it all de time, but it didn’t work fer me. Everybody
pulls deir wire in dere, an dere’s skin mags all
over de joint. Ya tink all yur birtdays’ve come
tegedder if de librarian - who’s a dog anyway
- has a little slit in her skirt, or has a tight blouse
on dat pushes her tits out, or - joy a joys, hold me
back - de top button has just ‘accidentally’
come undone, an ya can sneek a good goo down her front,
when she leans over ta ya at de counter.
First published in the Trinity College anthology, Dogs
Shot From Cannons, Wholly Trinity Press, 2000
Review
‘Financial Services’, in the anthology
Dogs Shot From Cannons
This book, the second gathering of
the fruits of Trinity College’s creative writing
course, showcases the work, both fiction and poetry,
of fifteen new or newish voices. Some have found success
already : one was twice nominated for the Hennessy Award
for Best New Fiction……
Desmond Traynor’s story Financial
Services starts out seeming to be one type of story
but, in a wonderfully bizarre twist, ends up being something
quite unexpected.
Dogs Shot From Cannons is a wonderfully
wrought window on the world from fifteen unique perspectives
of life and living. It would be hoped that some –
if not all – of these new voices will be heard
again in the near future.
From ‘Unique, new voices form
TCD writing course’ by Derek Hand, in The Sunday
Business Post, Sunday, October 8, 2000
