Something Terrible Happened Last Night

holiday had gone past in a flash. It didn’t help that she’d spent most of it working in the hotel rather than hanging out at the beach, but now they were back and beginning the Leaving Cert syllabus.

beginning the Leaving Cert syllabus.

pick her way

caught in some sort of alien ray beam and couldn’t speak.

the patio furniture

tiny, and with her knees drawn up to her chin and her huge eyes dark in a very pale face, she looked even more pixie-like than normal.

The light was catching the diamond stud in her nose and making it gleam

looked like two spiders had died on her face.

Sitting at the bottom of the stairs in Katie’s black-and-white-tiled hallway, Frankie put her head in her hands and tried to shut out the chaos that was unfolding around her.

She sighed. One day she was going to be able to introduce herself in this town without someone saying, ‘Oh, you’re Ollie’s sister.’ Frankie didn’t know if it was because he was the oldest of the five of them, or because his band was the only vaguely