The Reasonable Damnation of Eamon Trevor

By David Xavier

Eamon Trevor cannot take a thing on faith. He must see it to believe it. His inflexible embracement of logic and reason render him blind to what others see clearly.

When the person he holds dearest in life suffers, he takes things into his own hands, and drops his stubborn mindset momentarily, and it leads him down a path he cannot, or will not, correct.

The Reasonable Damnation of Eamon Trevor is a short story of pride and faith, and the uncompromised balance of the two.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Xavier
• Release date: Apr 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005580308

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The Reasonable

Damnation

of Eamon Trevor

David Xavier

When the freckled boy from the docks stood at the door with his arms wide and told of pulling fish the size of his grandfather's boots from the stream, Eamon Trevor told the boy it couldn’t be true, he'd have to get around to Dublin if he wanted fish that big. The waters in Cork ran too shallow, the stones at the bottom were also the stones at the surface.

And when a fellow came in shaking his jacket and announced it was coming down fast and sideways, Eamon had to set his pint down and get out of doors and see the droplets on his palm before he could agree and say for sure that indeed the dry spell had quit.

Eamon was not one to fall for tall tales or short lies. He looked at the world through skeptical eyes, he needed logic, he sorted for reason. So it was that Eamon wasn't a faithful man. Oh, he was faithful to his dear Mary Kate, her hair like a saint, for her he'd stand square upon the county road as the two o'clock bus came bowling round the curve.

No, it was God who Eamon didn't believe in.

Show me the proof and I'll consider it, he'd say to the boys at the pub with pints in their hands.

Just look around you, man. He's every which way the head turns.

What is it that cannot be explained away by simplicities of matter? What is it that requires a belief in an almighty?

One of the fellows started but stopped before the words came out. The rest of them stayed silent, some even lowering their eyes as Eamon