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Fiction

The Irelefunt

David Swan tells a story of cosmic significance.

The two brothers liked to argue a lot. For instance, Alan was convinced that the sole reason for people going on spiritual journeys was to add meaning to an otherwise meaningless world; or to put it another way, because people were bored – but Lawrence wasn’t having any of it. As far as he was concerned life was teeming with meaning and purpose. His argument was that a sperm doesn’t casually swim towards the egg, stopping off for hash browns and coffee along the way. It doesn’t stop before it reaches the egg and think about returning.

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