Creative Writing: Under The Spell - A Travel Tale By Danny O'brien
Beginning of paper
"The great advantage of having an ancestry like that of a mongrel dog is I have
so many ancestral homes to go home to."
We caught the ferry from Le Havre, France to Ireland, land of my ancestors.
Every since I was a wee lad, my mind has been used as a canvas by every Irishman
who has been displac ....
Middle of paper
.... the attendant said
in his sweet Irish brogue, "It's the wee red one over there," and handed me the
keys.
Still dazed by the sudden entrance in to "The Spell" we sped off in our wee red
Ford Fiesta. Every so many hundred yards along the road signs reminded us to
"Drive to the left." On the open road it was no problem, however moments later
in the congestion of Wexford I was near panic, yelling at Travis to help remind
me what side of the street I was on. It didn't help that he often mix ....
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Word count: 4979
Page count: 19 (approximately 250 words per page)
