Retrieving 9
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Last published Sat, Jul 25, 2026
"We will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other" - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
Tadhg Lynch, the infamous hot-headed hurler, enters his sixth year of Tommen College. Anger is the one thing that seems to be a constant in his life. The more the world turns, the more the fire within him lives. Although he was saved from the burning of his childhood home, it seems like his mind is still there and it was still burning and no one could save him.
Leah Daly, the casual bystander of Tommen college that has too much going on at home to be bothered by classmates. She enters her sixth year of Tommen College with no fire within her. At seventeen it feels like she has lived her whole life and she doesn't want to live anymore of it. The only thing keeping her is her younger brother that wouldn't be living if not for her.
They hate each other. They ignore each other in the corridors of the school. They don't realise everyone can see the tension between the two of them. They believe the other has it so much better and doesn't realise it.
But everyone knows the grass is always greener on the other side, right?
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