Friday Fiction

Scene: Enoch The Brave and Gerry The Monk meet outside The Four Courts. The conversation is recorded by CIA satellite.

Enoch Burke and Martin Cahill accidentally bump into one another outside the Hich Court.

Martin: I like your style, kid. 

Enoch: Don’t call me that. I hate kids.

Martin:No, but I do. Like your style, I mean. You just stand here every day and make such a dignified protest.

Enoch: Maybe if I were to adopt your style, things might move along faster. Daddy says you look through them when you look them in the eye.

Martin: Whatever about our different modus operandi, we’re both fucked. 

Enoch: I know. I’m going backwards just by standing still and you’re running away to stay standing.

Enoch and