Fiction
The Path I Tookby Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Any hopes I’d had of a peaceful morning of work that day evaporated the instant I opened my email and saw the single word in the subject line.
Ireland.
My heart raced. Was this the moment I’d dreaded for so long—the unmasking of the truth? The beginning of the end of the journey I’d begun so long ago?
I calmed down after a moment, scrolling through the body of the message. The writer was a student reporter for The Beacon Star, the paper at the small, liberal arts college in Ohio where I teach. An Irish politician was coming to speak on campus, she explained. A former member of the Irish Republican Army turned peace activist. A controversial figure at home whose tour of the United States featured protests outside several of his appearances
