Show Them a Good Time
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To Declan Meade for his endless patience and support.
Finally to my family, my parents and sister, for everything.
Note on the Author
Nicole Flattery’s stories have been published in the Irish Times, the Dublin Review, the White Review, Winter Papers, the Letters Page and The Stinging Fly. She is a recipient of a Next Generation Artists’ Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and the White Review Short Story Prize. She lives in Galway, Ireland.
First published in Great Britain 2019
First published in 2019 in the Republic of Ireland by The Stinging Fly
This electronic edition published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Extract from ‘Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens’ (Lorrie Moore Birds of America, Faber and Faber Ltd.) used with the kind permission of the publisher
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