The Curse of Ballysaggartmore: A Father Declan Supernatural Mystery

By Patrick Dorn

Battling Brothers Need a Keeper

 

Mirth and mayhem ensue when a Franciscan friar is recruited by two guardian angels to rescue a pair of ghosts who are cursed to endlessly spar on an ancestral ruin.

 

The Father Declan Supernatural Mysteries are a series of upbeat, redemptive, and often humorous contemporary fantasy short stories set in Ireland.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patrick Dorn
• Release date: Sep 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215500361

Patrick Dorn

Patrick Dorn used to write weird westerns set in Old California, New Mexico, and Colorado, but then he visited Ireland. Now his supernatural fiction alternates between The West and The Emerald Isle, but is always, always weird. He's also an Anglican priest and a full-time chaplain. Check out Patrick's blog, stories, plays, musicals, children's books, and more at www.PatrickDorn.com. You can reach him at [e-mail]

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The Curse of Ballysaggartmore

THE CURSE OF BALLYSAGGARTMORE

A Father Declan Supernatural Mystery

PATRICK DORN

Contents

Battling Brothers Need a Keeper

1. A Polka Dot Friar

2. A Change of Habit

3. The Curse of Ballysaggartmore

4. A Futile Fight

5. Welcome to the Thunderdome

6. Torched by an Angel

7. Hugging It Out

8. A Curse Undone

9. The Battle of Ballysaggartmore

10. Destination: Home

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Afterword

About the Author

The Curse of Ballysaggartmore, Copyright © 2022 by Patrick Dorn.

All rights reserved.

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No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Battling Brothers Need a Keeper

Mirth and mayhem ensue when a Franciscan friar is recruited by two guardian angels to rescue a pair of ghosts who are cursed to endlessly spar on an ancestral ruin.

The Father Declan Supernatural Mysteries are a series of upbeat, redemptive, and often humorous contemporary fantasy short stories set in Ireland.

A Polka Dot Friar

Franciscan Father Declan O’Shea sat on a five-gallon plastic bucket and picked at the splotches of brightly-colored paint that dotted his russet brown habit. He was at Paintball Tralee in County Kerry, where he’d been asked to bless a new shipment of low-velocity, pump action, spring-powered splatball rifles to be used by youngsters in their mock skirmishes on the seven-acre competition site.

The woodland battlefield included bunkers, a fort, and even a scaled-down church with a sniper’s steeple.

The blessing and dedication ceremony went well enough and it looked like there’d be no afternoon rain. But when a gang of