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Frank O’Connor’s “First Confession” & Open Thread

By Taters on December 24, 2007 at 11:21 PM in Current Affairs

May this Christmas and the upcoming year bring you and yours joy.  I was looking for a short story by my favorite practitioner of the genre – gifted Irish writer Frank O’ Connor. 

 I couldn’t find the touching “A Christmas Day” by O’Connor but I was able to find “First Confession” and I envy those that read it for the first time, recalling the delight it brought me.

I remember when I saw “The Crying Game” that I was struck by certain similarities which made me think that it seemed to have been inspired by O’Connor’s masterpiece,”Guests of the Nation.” It was.

So I offer this to you my friends, from my favorite writer of the short story. I hope you enjoy it.

First Confession