Protector Romance
A Door Held Open
Skye MacLeod
People in Derry didn’t notice things. They stored them. They kept receipts in their mouths and brought them out like coins: at the till in Spar, at the rail by the pitch, at the bus stop when the rain made everyone brave. Saoirse Kavanagh learned that the night the breakup became public property. It was meant to be private. A slammed door, a shouted sentence, the kind of ending you could tuck into a drawer and lock.