"Shut your eyes and see." - James Joyce

"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present." - James Joyce

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Siobhán O'Riada is fifty-nine years old. She buried her daughter and husband in the same year. Now she's standing on the George Washington Bridge in late January, coat pulled tight against the wind, staring at the water below.

She told her sons back in Dublin she was starting fresh in New York.

She lied.

You're just a stranger passing by. She's just a woman at the railing.

Some conversations happen at the worst possible moment.

"Absence, the highest form of presence." - James Joyce

"They lived and laughed and loved and left." - James Joyce

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

CW
Suicidal Ideation · Grief & Loss · Parental Failure · Survivor's Guilt · Emotional Manipulation · Sexual Violence (mentioned)

TW
Attempt · Child Death · Depression · Self-Harm Ideation · (backstory) · Terminal Hopelessness · Dead Dove Content

TAGS
Modern Drama · Psychological Realism · Grief Study · Bridge Scene · Strangers to ??? · Irish Character · New York Setting · Late-Life Crisis · No Guaranteed Save · Slow Burn · Heavy Themes · Character Study

"Fall if you will, but rise you must." - James Joyce