CORK- a Drimalegue parish is shrouded in mystery as local woman finds fortune of gold buried in local field. The woman in question, known only as Mary, has reported finding the gold after an estranged lover asked Mary to retrieve a blackthorn cane from the grave of a recently deceased man. Even stranger, Mary reports having come in contact with a resurrected corpse that she claims told her to enter the house of her current husband’s family home.

The family, asleep at the time of Mary’s entry, claim  to hear no noise during the night as Mary says she entered the house upon orders of the dead man and proceeded to drain the blood of the family’s three young sons. In effectively killing the boys and returning the dead man’s body to the cemetery, Mary claims the man then told her the location of multiple sites in which gold was buried. Witnesses at the time of the young men’s deaths report overhearing Mary arrange the promise of land, which would later prove to be filled with gold, in exchange for returning the life of the farmer’s three sons. Locals are baffled that the young men since then have managed a full recovery, and in a bizarre turn of events the oldest of the three had  even agreed to wed the would be murderer.

Only a month after the discovery of the three pots of gold Mary and her newlywed husband, who claims to harbor no ill will towards his wife, discovered even more gold located to the south of the previous three. The couple say they plan on using the money towards the future in purchasing multiple farms and fine houses. They hope to pass on this good fortune to future children.

In Richard van Camp’s Angel Wing Splash Pattern the chapter “Sky Burial” uses the mall similarly to how  Tomson Highway portrays it in Kiss of the Fur Queen. In van Camps work he uses the space of the mall to refer to a place of entrapment and ruin. His allusion of the macaw in the cage chained to its post seems to refer to the main character Icabus. It’s Icabus who seems to relate to the macaw, perhaps which is why when van Camp alludes to him dying he’s described as flying, “Icabus flew with an explosion of white feathers and was swallowed by the hottest lake …and there was peace” (47). As well, van Camp uses Icabus’ daughter and the people surrounding him to make note of the ruin people in the mall seem to be. Icabus describes his late wife as having grace and elegance (43) while insinuating his daughter is the opposite and the Indigenous people he sees as ruined, “a table away, sat a family of ruined Indians. They had all let themselves go.”(41). On the other hand, in Kiss of the Fur Queen Highway uses the mall in similar ways. Highway portrays the mall almost as a separate entity with a vast hunger for consumption, “Grey and soulless, the mall loomed behind them, the rear end of a beast that, having gorged itself, expels its detritus” (121). The mall is both a heaven for its variety of resources, as well as a place of evils. As an extension of urbanization, the mall as a space holds a sense of evil. This is perhaps most exemplified when Jeremiah tells Gabrielle, while browsing the goods in the mall, that even women can also be sold, ”In cities…it’s done all the time, all the time. It’s like selling meat” (116). Over all, these authors paint the space of the mall to be a rather devoid place despite the abundance  of material goods. They both seems to describe the mall as a place lacking for meaningful interactions and a general sense of well-being.