The Hole

by Daragh Fleming

Art: “Assemblage” by Douglas Campbell

Daragh Fleming is an author from Cork, Ireland. His debut in nonfiction, a collection of essays on mental health called Lonely Boy, is  published by BookHub Publishing. He runs the award-winning mental heath blog, Thoughts Too Big, as well as working for Head of Content at A Lust For Life. He has work appearing in several literary magazines including The Ogham Stone, Beir Bua, Trasna, The Madrigal, Époque Magazine, Sunday Morning At The River, Wexford Bohemian and more. Fleming won the Cork Arts ‘From The Well’ Short Story Competition in 2021 and was longlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize in 2023.