A rude awakening

There was a time when bad news which occurred overnight was not transmitted by your radio alarm, or your first bleary glance at Twitter on an iPhone. When I was a child, thank God, there were only a few incidents of my being woken by bad news, and none of them involved the family or

You would never know

This short story is published in the current edition of the Leitrim Guardian (www.leitrimguardian.ie). Unfortunately, in the publishing process, part of the story has been lost – so the whole story is available here for readers who were wondering where the rest of it was!   When he was home staying with the cousin, he