Mairéad

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An insta pic of a snoopy teddy looking at a duck
A mirror selfie of me, in blue jeans and a pastel shirt
A book called The Case to Impeach and Imprison Joe Biden, by Mike McCormick
Screenshot of a webpage where a very small amount of text, most likely AI generated, is visible between large obnoxious browser ads
A screen shot from pokemon go, there are about 20 Lechonks on the screen
A slice of toast, cut in a way that there's like a 70/30 ratio between the two "halves"
a big sheet pan of diced butternut squash
Me, in a rainjacket and cap, standing infront of greenery and a lake, with a mountain in the background
A statue of a cartoon panda wearing an adidas tracksuit, hat, and headphones
A statue of a cartoon panda wearing an adidas tracksuit
The Seventh Ground 83. The Seventh ground reads as follows:- "Article 40.4 of the constitution of Ireland concerning David Reddan inter alios personal rights. The right to personal liberty and property, the right to safety and peaceful enjoyment of property without interference or risk. A property owner is entitled to full economic value of their property. The property owner has legal claim on those who interfere with their enjoyment. Section 13 non-fatal offences act 1997 as amended. A person shall be guilty of an offence who intentionally or recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of death or harm to another." 84. Other than making those bold assertions he says nothing else.
A bathroom selfie of me (with a bob, round glasses and an orange dress) and Joe, in a suit, sticking his tongue out
A large two-storey stand alone house, overgrown and with broken and barricaded windows
She was always having a big coffee idea of what to name a collection or one of her characters and it was always terrible; this is perhaps her most relatable aspect. That and her love of stews.
A plate with avocado toast, poached eggs, salad and a cup of coffee. A computer keyboard is in the background.
Bracelet bead spelling out: "cunty daddy kong muff puzzy"
Skeletonised Specimens: Of the 35 cases of skeletonised remains referred to the OSP, 17 were identified as human bones, 17 were identified as animal bones and one was neither.
A cartoon brown bear (boris) with a white bunny (miffy)
The book The Black Pool by Time MacGabhann
The book The First Bad Man by Miranda July
Book cover for The Adversary by Michael Crummey
A Snoopy teddy lying on a rock in the sunshine
the band Speed playing on stage, the lead singer holding up a flute
From instagram, two seagulls next to a catfood machine with the text "A seagull in Turkey has learned to mimic a cat's meow to trick people into using a vending machine meant for strays"
A mini studded teddy of the dog Olaf from Peanuts, wearing an official looking uniform
A wikipedia screenshot, it says "Description. Most barnacles are encrusters,"
From William Gass's The Tunnel: "Despite his devotion to GH, Governali always seems distracted: he's bemused by a wrong number; he has mislaid a trifling memo, and although he doesn't want the memo, he certainly would like to know where he put it; someone has peeled an orange into his wastebasket; his copy of Livy has not been returned; he is out of stamps; will it rain when he hasn't his umbrella? he fears he's not got enough money for lunch. Still, he's dapper, immaculate, fulsomely rhetorical and passionate. Herschel, however, sags in his suit as though it were full of mail. Herschel nibbles at major concerns and then nervously skitters away; dismay pollutes his atmosphere; he sighs often, each like a smothered fart. I, on the other hand, I... look like a man in a restaurant eating alone."
15. Now we reach numbered page one. (At first there will be a lot of font changes and line spacing and picturating too, even in color; but this will lessen as the narrator begins to focus his text on his own past, and after chapter three, for the most part, the high jinks will become midjinks, finally even lowjinks or no jinks at all.)
an instagram video of a woman digging a dirt tunnel in her home
screenshot of the instagram account explorewithsnoopy of a small Snoopy teddy in a hotel corridor
A pile of books: the magic mountain by Mann, green girl by kate zambreno, hamnet by maggie o'farrell, trust by hernan diaz, aye and gommorah by samuel r delany, berta isla and the infatuations by javier marías
a room in a bookshop with piles of books. Over the door, a sign reads "crime room"
screen atop a vending machine showing a woman dancing and the text "your items will dispense here"
multiple black vending machines in a room
a selfie of me, my left eye not meeting the camera and pointed slightly downwards
Hamburger (1958) studied the occurrence of dreams concerned with food and eating in his analysands, including those with eating symptomatoloogy.
a small snoopy teddy in a hotel corridor
In a recent conversation, Hanif Kureishi was telling me about his new novel, whose narrative is different from what he wrote hitherto; I ironically asked him: "But the hero is nonetheless an immigrant with a Pakistani father who is a failed writer..." Не replied: "What's the problem? Do we not all have Pakistani fathers who are failed writers?"
HK We have spoken before about the way literary characters come into being as presences manifested through writers into the world. In an interview with The Paris Review, you said that "every character in so-called eternal fiction came through ordinary people. This is a secret process, but I'm entirely sure that it's true." Could you expand on this? LK Only the ordinary person exists. And they are sacred.
a valentines card with a photo of mark white, dorking wanderers manager, saying "Mairéad!! Remember you have an overload!"
The books My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld, The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Miroslav Krleza, The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You by Alice Munro and Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
A letter saying "the department would like to acknowledge your achievement with the enclosed commemorate pen"
A bowl of stew, with an lit fire in a fireplace in the background
me standing on a cliff by the ocean
a snoopy teddy in front of xmas decoradtions
a ginger cat sleeping on a pub couch
a triangular table with many pig shaped trinkets on it
a small snoopy plush with a basketball outside a white mansion
a window painting of a snowman saying "best kebab in town"
Karaoke lyrics on a tv, reading "oohuhoh" and "sweet thing"
Mirror selfie of a brown haired woman in a large bathroom