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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Colin Barrett Reads “A Shooting in Rathreedane”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Then Swift, I'll Be the Sun? Christ, No, You Bertie Creeden?

Nownan killed the engine and got out of the squad car, keeping her body behind the door. Swift followed her lead. The yard was covered in matted, trampled down straw. Empty wine bottles planted in the mot of ash surrounding the pit. Scattered elsewhere in the grass were bags of feed, a strip down rusted out engine block,. scraps of tarap scraps of lumber, metal piping, plastic piping, bits and bits and bits. Newnan asked, it is surely? He was pressing a stained tea towel of blue and white check to his temple. "Every count that knows me does call me bobbles," he said.

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