The Priest Hunter
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The Priest Hunter
In the early 1700s a conniving man in Ireland could earn a mighty wage betraying his friends, his family, and his faith. Priest hunters they were called, bounty hunters scouring the countryside for Catholic clergy. Countryside like the Burren, a desolate, treeless landscape of unrelenting stone.
In Irish a wolf is called 'mac tíre', which means literally, 'son of the countryside'. But the Burren is no country for wolves.
A priest hunter couldn't run into a wolf there.
He'd have to cross paths with something much more dangerous.
A daughter of the countryside.
This story originally appeared in "Fiction River: Past Crime (Kobo Edition)."
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Patrick O'Sullivan is a writer living and working in the United States and Ireland. Patrick's fantasy and science fiction works have won awards in the Writers of the Future Contest as well as the James Patrick Baen Memorial Writing Contest sponsored by Baen Books and the National Space Society.
