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Prize winning story

I’ve added O’Reilly’s Daughter to the short stories. It won a prize in Writers Journal and I am rather pleased with it. I love characters who don’t conform and Elizabeth is one of those. In a way I find strong female characters have more depth than male ones. The male ones seem to come out hard men or bullies and single minded. It probably has something to do with heroes from boyhood, they never had any doubts and we knew they would win. John Wayne at Iwo Jima, Zorro and Buffalo Bill. The funny men were just funny, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, or the three stogies. We never had a funny hero, or a tough funny man. But the ladies could do stupid things and remain ladies. Fall in love and realise their mistake.
O’Reilly’s Daughter