Greenan

Partly it was just that spending an evening with people who are all exactly my age, for the first time since the final school disco (held for some reason in a small club on Donegall Square, rather than the more usual Greenan Lodge Hotel), made me feel that 42 isn't actually all that old.

President Kaczyński burkesworks 2010

Two books that made deep impressions on me as a young writer were It Happened in Boston? by Russell H. Greenan, and Ghosts by Ursula Perrin.

Katherine Min - An interview with author 2010

“All the camps are like that, not just Greenan,” Samuel said.

Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

If you lived in Corrin, you ran to the woods north of Greenan.

Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

Always folks in the other villages, never Greenan.

Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

The order of the villages went Greenan, Aghadoc, Corrin, Stoneybatter, and Drumanoo.

Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

“Followed her when she left Greenan, tracked the both of you down Corrin way.”

Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

But two days before Isabelle first met Hen on the path to Corrin, a girl named Lanny entered the Greenan camp feeling dizzy and slightly out of sorts.

Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

The only problem with the Greenan camp—no offense to you—is that the woods are frightening around the edges.

Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010

There he is, on the way to the Greenan camp, running off from Hen, a total lark—honestly, he had no intention of actually losing her.

Falling In Frances O’Roark Dowell 2010