Caoilinn Hughes

The following story by Caoilinn Hughes features in Galway Stories: 2020. Caoilinn Hughes is the author of Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize 2019. Her short fiction has won an O. Henry Prize and the Moth International Short Story Prize. Her second novel, The Wild Laughter, was published in July and is shortlisted for Novel of the Year and the RTÉ Listener's Choice Award in the Irish Book Awards 2020.