Mary Morrissy is the author of three novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender, and The Rising of Bella Casey, as well as two story collections, A Lazy Eye and Prosperity Drive. She was awarded a Lannan Foundation Award and was elected to Aosdána, Ireland’s academy of writers and artists. Born in Dublin, she studied journalism at the Dublin Institute of Technology and has worked as a journalist and teacher. She serves as the associate director of creative writing at University College Cork.

Phone Cards

An iStory

by Mary Morrissy

Madam, she treat me well. Seven-fifty dirhams a month and phone cards on top. Doctor, he devoted. When she poorly, he bring her mint tea in bed. She have headaches and must have her room dark. I hears him crooning to her. I knows what come next.

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