Since covid-19 put us into isolation, quite a few virtual events have replaced the live in-person gigs that had to be cancelled. Here's an online reading I hustled together (in association with The Holding Cell) on the same day I should have been helping to launch Galway Stories 2020 . This short story was originally published in my collection 'Fireproof and Other Stories', now given new life in Doire Press's anthology for Galway 2020.