Declan Geraghty is a writer and poet from Dublin. He’s had short stories appear in Dublin in the Coming Times, edited by Roddy Doyle, and From the Plough to the Stars by Culture Matters. He’s had poetry published in the UK in the Brown Envelope Book by Alan Morrison. Declan will also feature in the upcoming poetry collection Cry of the Poor edited by Fran Lock. He is currently studying Creative writing and Media Production whilst working on his first novel and short story collection.

Of the short story featured here, Declan states:

'I think in the consumerist environment with which we live, we put importance on things that we are programmed by Capitalist society to think we need. We scream validation as human being and capitalism latches onto our insecurities, while also stealing our time through advertising and distraction. The distraction with capitalism is every where, as the bigger the gimmick, no matter how subtly advertised, the better the sell. We are filling a void by buying a lot of goods that we don’t need, a void that we haven’t fully understood yet in society.'