The Last Thing the Author Said: Writing by Nick Sweeney
  • First Thing
  • A Blue Coast Mystery, Almost Solved
  • Interview, October 2020
  • Out in 2021
  • Interview, June 2020
  • Out in 2020
  • Out in 2019
  • The Exploding Elephant
  • Out in 2018
  • Out in Autumn - Winter 2017
  • Published in 2017
  • Laikonik Express
    • Laikonik Express on Kindle
    • Laikonik Express: cultural baggage
    • Reviews of Lakonik Express
    • Laikonik Express - origins
    • Laikonik Express film
    • Laikonik Express on Resonance FM - soundscapes with Johny Brown and the Band of Holy Joy
  • Short stories and tall tales
    • The Boy at the Bus Stop
    • End-User of Ordinance
    • Fast in the Life Lane
    • Wojtek and the Commissar
    • Wheel
  • Published in 2013
  • Out in 2014
    • Man Seeks Dog
    • Andabatae
    • The Place of the Dead
  • Out in 2015/2016
  • My works-in-progress
    • A gothic American tale
    • Angelika and the Forgers
    • Cleopatra's Script
  • Last Thing Blog

Andabatae - my Roman tragedy, online in August in the Eunoia Review

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'Anton felt heavy-lidded, but knew that if he closed his eyes terrible angels would scratch holes in the membranes at the back of them. He hurried across the estate, arrested by the thought of what had happened to the bright-eyed kid who came to Rome to study the city’s history and culture. He had a dim memory of that kid’s face, tried to place it, then was astonished to see it blinking gauntly at him for a second from the vitrine by the metro.'

What is a boy to do when his friends go to ruin and his mind compels him to follow them? Rome, sometime in the 1990s, and Anton sees new revelations in the ancient stones, ancient visions in crowded clubs and lonely bathrooms. No heroes, no heroines, just heroin. 


Andabatae went online in Ian Chung's marvellous Eunoia Review in August, and you can find it here.



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