TENDER LOVING SCARE by Glenn McQuaid

“One of the earliest memories I have is of my father pointing to an abandoned rowboat in Dublin’s River Tolka and quite matter-of-factly stating that “a monster lives in there.” It was not hard to imagine some strange creature hiding out in that moldering wreck; the river itself, more mud than water and bestrewn with shopping carts, gulls, and rubbish, looked like something out of a horror film.”