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Cormac James

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Cormac James is an Irish writer. His short fiction has appeared in Guernica, AGNI, and elsewhere. His novel The Surfacing was published in 2014. He lives in Montpellier, France.

Written by Cormac James

A young girl in a red dress and white shirt standing next to a gravestone in an overgrown graveyard with headstones

essayChildhood and adolescence

End of story

I am an atheist, and suspicious of sugar-coated evasions. So how can I explain death to my son without fudging the truth?

Cormac James