Daniel Tiernan
Daniel Tiernan writes—fictions, fallacies, and other various stupidities.
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Consumption Habits
Cups of gin overflowing with ice and lemon twists in the living room. The pillows are filled with smoke. Couch pillows. The kind that grandmothers buy at stores that are kept in business by grandmothers. The glamour of my divorced grandmother oozes off the cigarettes resting in…
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Make-Work Program For Millennials
My coworker rushes down the hall, her On Cloud sneakers squeaking. She passes a glass-walled conference room, the shades of which are hiding the idiot managers inside who’re mapping out the rhythm of next year’s missed quotas.Let us hurry to give each other feedback in this…
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An Apology To Language
An apology to Language for hoping it could save me sits in my throat as I reflect on all the stupid ways we’ve collectively abused our good friend.
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What I Prefer
usually, I only buy candy bars and cigarettesbut today I buy a fifth of whiskeythe corner store clerk, confusedice in a coffee cupI pour the liquid inhits my lips, I stopnever liked liquorput my mouth to the faucetclear away the evidencethe proof I’ve forgotten who I amwhat I…
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Tie My Thoughts So Tight
I’d rather feel angry than insecurebe angry every daytie my thoughts so tight
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Rules
cynics and their rules I should write mine down become a prophet or a lawman rebuild the institutions in my own image
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If I Had Friends
The conversations I imagine I would have if I had friends. We would complain, probably. About all the dirt between our fingernails. The people who didn’t cosign our many personal disasters.
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Hurried
the curious, hurried youth with a taste for salt and fat sit up straight and wait for no one
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Book Review: L.S. Harvey’s The Scaena Show
In 2018, I wrote a short profile about L.S. Harvey and her love of writing. This fall, she published her novel, The Scaena Show. Harvey’s skill for building tension comes through on each page as she crafts dark characters with even darker intentions. The Scaena Show exhibits a…