Patrick Barrett

Biography

Patrick Barrett’s plays have been performed at the Flea Theater, 59E59, the Abrons Arts Center, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His poetry and fiction have appeared in the Columbia Review and the Last Magazine.

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FICTION / Summer 2020

The Hafgufa

By Patrick Barrett ,  Illustration by Michael Byers

The Hafgufa is a giant fish or whale said in Old Norse writings to roam the seas.

In the Konungs Skuggsjá, a book of tactics and morality written by King Håkon Håkonsson for his young son, the king is loath to describe the creature—for no...

Illustration by Michael Byers