Counterparts (short story) youngest son, Tom, to make dinner but as the child lets the fire in the kitchen go out, Farrington's rage explodes and he starts beating the little child with a walking stick. The story ends with Tom pleading for mercy. For Joyce's contemporaneous audience, the term "counterparts" could be expected to suggest (hand-written) duplicate copies of documents concerning the office's business. Counterparts (short story) "Counterparts" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners". The story recounts an evening in the life of a man named Farrington, frequently referred to simply as "the man". Farrington’s difficulties
Jellyfish (short story collection) Jellyfish (short story collection) Jellyfish is a short story collection by Scottish author Janice Galloway, published by Freight Books in 2015. In the epigraph to Jellyfish, Galloway notes that she seeks to redefine David Lodge's idea that "Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life’s the other way around." Throughout the 14 stories in Jellyfish, Galloway connects the themes sex, love, and parenthood, as well as both mental and physical illnesses. Jellyfish was short-listed for the Saltire Society Literary Award in 2015 in literary fiction and long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.