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Dividual Notes is a creative collaboration that features traditional and digital visual art, flash fiction stories, and combinations of all three. Our connection as family members and working together allows us to draw on each other's experiences and ideas. Art and writing pair up wonderfully to tell stories, and we enjoy creating collaboratively to illustrate and echo ideas about memory, relationships, and belonging in each other's work.

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Barely Casting A Shadow

Reflex Fiction is a quarterly international flash fiction competition for stories between 180 and 360 words. In May 2018 Reflex Fiction published their first anthology titled “Barely Casting a Shadow”…

Blog – May 30, 2018

Memory See mmore about this work
Sides of You See mmore about this work
Late for a Wedding See mmore about this work
Carrowreagh See mmore about this work

The Jump

“Why don’t you take the kite out?” says dad. I look at my brother, who shrugs. Outside, trees bend in the wind. We have been moping around the house all…

Creative Writing – September 2, 2017

Drifting See mmore about this work
Glencar Valley See mmore about this work
Mirror See mmore about this work

A Slack Rope

I travel from place to place. I settle for a while. I am settled, for the moment. I think about travelling to new places and also places I have been.…

Creative Writing – May 7, 2017

Stir See mmore about this work
Frozen Home See mmore about this work
Culleenamore See mmore about this work

Fairy Bridge

For a quiet moment the bridge stands empty, its stone untouched by curious little fingers, its moss unpicked…

Creative Writing – December 31, 2016

Homebird See mmore about this work
A Familiar Place See mmore about this work
Bricklieve II See mmore about this work

Bonhomie

A few days after Felix Baumgartner calmly plummeted to Earth at 843 mph, in Carrick it seemed like the rain was determined to out-plummet him in a race to oblivion.…

Creative Writing – October 28, 2016

Igor See mmore about this work
Leave the Door Open See mmore about this work
No One and The Others II See mmore about this work

Keshcorran

Our house sits a few miles south-east of the mountain, Keshcorran. Viewed from this direction the mountain is a lopsided mass, like an over-ripe pear or a scoop of ice-cream…

Creative Writing – October 10, 2016

Lough Key Forest Park See mmore about this work
Icecream for the Crow See mmore about this work
Trees See mmore about this work

Landmarks

These streets are familiar, the cobblestone patterns and manicured roundabouts, and the people zipping past on bikes, chatting and quarreling like birds…

Creative Writing – September 5, 2016

Bricklieve See mmore about this work
No Safe House See mmore about this work
City Dwellers See mmore about this work

The Wire Fence

You move less. You hover by the wire fence. The other children maul and romp. You watch the ground, scuff gravel, step a little dance between the pieces of flattened…

Creative Writing – July 31, 2016

Almost See mmore about this work
The Dark See mmore about this work
The Wire Fence See mmore about this work

A Hard Goodbye

I parked the car and got out. The road wound farther down, dark and empty, to a small town. Clouds brooded overhead, and a cold wind flicked across the barren…

Creative Writing – April 21, 2016

Boys See mmore about this work
Slish Wood See mmore about this work
Oevers See mmore about this work

Apricots

Alan hands out apricots from a sticky plastic bag. We jaw them for a while, pulling sour faces in the fire light. When we…

Creative Writing – February 12, 2016

Thought See mmore about this work
Woman See mmore about this work
Standing Women See mmore about this work

Field of Play

Our neighbour lives in a beige two-storey house ringed with sheds at the far side of an L-shaped field. Our garden sits in the crook of the field, a square…

Creative Writing – January 16, 2016

Gerda See mmore about this work
Bored Angels See mmore about this work
No One And The Others See mmore about this work

Igor

Igor had been on television, on a talk-show. He had sat beside his mother who translated for the talk show host. The audience had seemed amused. Soon afterward…

Creative Writing – January 11, 2016

Apricots See mmore about this work
Passengers See mmore about this work
Come We Don’t Stay Here See mmore about this work

King David

David reached under the bed and pulled out a wooden box. It was small and plain, a cheap little box with a cheap little clasp that had been opened so…

Creative Writing – January 9, 2016

The Hare See mmore about this work
The Ticket See mmore about this work
Blue Talk See mmore about this work

Mirror

She excused herself and hurried upstairs. For a moment conversation waned, as the diners adjusted to one less opinion, but someone quickly plugged the gap and…

Creative Writing – January 8, 2016

Field See mmore about this work
Jugs II See mmore about this work
Lines See mmore about this work

The Crow

As soon as the crow arrived the little birds fled, flitting on jagged trajectories out over the fields beyond the garden. The crow seemed not to notice this flurry of…

Creative Writing – January 5, 2016

King David See mmore about this work
Brother See mmore about this work
No Further Use See mmore about this work

Late for a Wedding

Ruth reached into the glove box and pulled out the wedding invitation. “It definitely says three o’ clock,” she said, offering it to Abe. He took…

Creative Writing – December 29, 2015

Broken See mmore about this work
The Session See mmore about this work
Garavogue River See mmore about this work

Ladies Brae

We skip and scrabble over the rocks that pile up in the bend of the river. My younger brother leads the way. He finds all the best footholds and…

Creative Writing – December 25, 2015

Mother See mmore about this work
No One and The Others See mmore about this work
Sometimes See mmore about this work

The Red Curtain

Billy took Nelson to see the old haunted house. It stood on a hill on the outskirts of town. They jogged up the street but slowed near the top. The…

Creative Writing – December 16, 2015

Apricots See mmore about this work
Thomas and Pony See mmore about this work
Bonhomie See mmore about this work

Agoraphobia

I caught the fly between my finger and thumb and immediately wished that someone had been looking, for I do not often move so deftly. I watched it wriggle, between…

Creative Writing – December 10, 2015

The Uncanny See mmore about this work
Ladies Brae See mmore about this work
Passing Through See mmore about this work

Beach Day

The beach was a shimmering golden crescent gilding a mile or so of bushy wild-land through which a dozen narrow tracks threaded criss-cross down to the sand…

Creative Writing – December 5, 2015

Maps See mmore about this work
Falling of the Ladder See mmore about this work
Room for Thought See mmore about this work

Autumn Leaves

Squeezed between the gable ends of two separate but similar estates, the forgotten and untouched patch of grass slopes down to a bend in the river…

Creative Writing – November 3, 2015

Crossing Over See mmore about this work
The Most Precious Thing See mmore about this work
Remember See mmore about this work

A Nice Surprise

The pony picked its way carefully down the valley’s far slope, grazing tufts of grass as it passed. Felipe and I stood perfectly still, almost holding our breaths…

Creative Writing – October 30, 2015

We Run See mmore about this work
Depayesement See mmore about this work
Invisible See mmore about this work

The Hare

The hare broke cover and scampered across the road, passing in front of Damien’s bike. He braked hard. Alice braked too. She lost her balance and toppled sideweays into her…

Creative Writing – October 3, 2015

Inside the Checkroom See mmore about this work
Humours See mmore about this work
Window See mmore about this work

Park Moment

I sat opposite the swing sets, watching the kids from the terraced houses behind the park make like monkeys, bawling, hitting out at each other as they pounded circles on…

Creative Writing – September 30, 2015

Man See mmore about this work
Inconsistent See mmore about this work
The Jump See mmore about this work

A Long Walk

It’s our first walk of the new year so I decide to take the long way: a six mile track curving up through the hazel wood, the lake spread like…

Creative Writing – September 21, 2015

Phoenix Park See mmore about this work
Supporting Herself See mmore about this work
Pastry See mmore about this work

Boys

Daylight lingered around the wood, as if kept in place by a spell, but between the trees the light quickly faded. The boys felt alone. Not free and independent as…

Creative Writing – October 20, 2014

Dancers See mmore about this work
I Won’t Be Long See mmore about this work
Summer See mmore about this work

Stranded Flesh

The first report came in at 5 a.m. The second, ten minutes later. And the third just as the harbourmaster hung up on the second. Something was crossing the shipping…

Creative Writing – September 20, 2014

Afterglow See mmore about this work
To Didou See mmore about this work
All I Need, A Roof Under My Feet See mmore about this work

Pastry

‘You never look where you’re going,’ said the mother to her little boy. He had tripped over the kerb, and she picked him up and slapped the dust out of…

Creative Writing – April 11, 2014

Being Good See mmore about this work
Wild Garlic See mmore about this work
Stranded Flesh See mmore about this work

Mother

I had wanted to knock like a friend, with a take-it or leave-it nonchalance, but of course I knocked like a mother, my fist swaddled in thick concern…

Creative Writing – February 22, 2014

Boys See mmore about this work
Agoraphobia See mmore about this work
Being Good See mmore about this work

Being Good

Daniel is sick. For as long as she can remember. He walks with a limp and coughs at night. It keeps her awake. Although it has only recently begun…

Creative Writing – February 11, 2014

Homeland See mmore about this work
Home Fiction See mmore about this work
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