Hi guys, I know I've been quite MIA these few months but I have been working on a short story based on the movie The Delinquent Season (2018). It's available in my book Shadow Puppets | Cillian Murphy. For those of you interested in checking it out, here's a short synopsis:
He didn't mean to fall in love with someone else. He just wanted to be seen.
Jim spent years fading inside his marriage, quietly shrinking into the role of a good father and husband that he was expected to play. When he met Yvonne, he realized that he had become invisible in his own life. The affair that followed not only wrecked him but destroyed everything he held dear.
Years later, Jim's daughter Emma returns to her old home to find answers to all the questions she couldn't ask in person. Sifting through the wreckage of their past, she discovers Jim's journals that offer her a window into the past from her father's perspective.
Emma must now confront a version of Jim Byrne she never truly knew—flawed, secretive, and heartbreakingly human. However, some answers open up a chasm inside her that can only mend after talking to the man behind the journal.