Rory Doherty

Rory Doherty’s fiction/poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Howth Castle, Side Show, ARTWIFE Magazine, ANTAE Journal, Bull, Northern New England Review, Firework Stories, Blessings in Disguise—Eyes Welled Up Anthology (PoetsChoice Press) and the 2025 Hemingway Shorts, Vol.10. In addition to being a writer, Rory is and has been many things: son, brother, student, athlete, soldier, bartender, teacher, husband, father, business owner, pet lover, etc. Through all past lives and including this iteration, he feels mostly like a thief trying not to get caught.

“The Problem with Language Today,” “The Last Altar Boy,” and “My Rolling Sea”

Undone diction
etherized upon a table.
Is or isn’t. In or out. For or against.
Ones, zeroes, x’s, o’s.
Klaxoned opinions clamoring.
A crisis indeed.
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