The Legend of the Lonesome Cowboy (Part I) comes from the short story collection by Marcus Preece, read by Loclann O’Grady. The short story can be read in Million-Story City: The Undiscovered Writings of Marcus Preece, pp. 107-165. The book, edited by Malu Halasa and Aura Saxén, will be published on 12 February 2021.
* Loclann O’Grady is an actor, musician, writer and teacher, who has been performing for nearly 30 years. Born in Dublin, he spent most of his childhood in Hong Kong, after a couple of years in the Seychelles. He has lived and worked in Dublin, Bath and Leicester, and now resides in South London.
* The illustration from The Immigrant by Paul Humphreys comes from a graphic story written by Preece, also in Million-Story City, pp. 236-247.

Lonesome Cowboy by Marcus Preece

At Sea, a poem by Marcus Preece, read by Loclann O’Grady - taken from Million Story City: The Undiscovered Writings of Marcus Preece. The book is edited by Malu Halasa and Aura Saxén and will be published on 12 February 2021.
Loclann O’Grady is an actor, musician, writer and teacher who has been performing for nearly 30 years. Born in Dublin, he spent most of his childhood in Hong Kong, after a couple of years in the Seychelles. He has lived and worked in Dublin, Bath and Leicester, and now resides in South London.

At Sea

Million-Story City: The Undiscovered Writings of Marcus Preece is a compilation of short stories, screenplays, comic strips, poems and music journalism full of passion, outrage, wit and psychedelic descriptiveness. A filmmaker, teacher and editor, Marcus sadly died in 2017, aged 53. This book pays tribute to a uniquely insightful, powerful and transformative voice for our troubled times. Edited by Malu Halasa and Aura Saxén, with comics by Paul Humphreys and Marcus’s portrait by filmmaker John Humphreys, Million-Story City is available from Paper + Ink on 12 February 2021.

Writings by Marcus Preece