This is the story of Maria’s son, but it is a story with two endings.
Maria lived in a small neglected suburb on the edge of the city and at the foot of the mountains. She had one son, and he was her world. His life was her life, and her thoughts were directed only to him. Eighteen years before, she met his father on the one holiday she had ever had, in Spain.
Mary O’Donnell lives near Straffan, County Kildare. Her first three poetry collections were published by Salmon Poetry (Reading the Sunflowers in September; Spiderwoman’s Third Avenue Rhapsody; Unlegendary Heroes). The 2003 collection September Elegies was published by Lapwing Press, Belfast. Her fiction includes Strong Pagans, The Light-Makers, Virgin and the Boy and The Elysium Testament.