Liam’s Song
Liam’s world was a patchwork of gray, concrete sidewalks, rain-soaked cardboard, and the distant hum of traffic. He was just twelve, but life had carved lines into his face that no child should bear. His parents had vanished, swallowed by the city’s shadows, leaving him alone in a sea of strangers.
Each morning, Liam would rise from his makeshift bed beneath the Ha’penny Bridge. The river Liffey flowed silently, mirroring his loneliness. His stomach gnawed with hunger, and his...