Eileen Winter Then the Rephaim begin crawling

Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows

and when the snow falls it is gray

Soon he finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime

James Joyce’s landmark debut novel traces the awakening of an artist—and the forging of an identity

terrifying choice: to walk away from it all

Eileen Winter Then the Rephaim begin crawlingThe Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic fathers caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the