history of o'florcus

On a fine day in june, in the late 1980's a small package was discovered under a bush outside a small town in the west of ireland. it was in an old suitcase, a tweed covered, moss finished model with a beige rubber handle. "opening the suitcase we found a tin box," sergeant burke said looking squarely at the news camera, "the tin box contained several pieces of bone, carved into 1973 ford escorts, there were four of these." ignoring the wildly flailing hands of the press he went on. "preliminary pathology reports suggest this to be human bone."

I looked at my camera, i had left my back up flash cards in my car, i had no time to selectively delete anything.

"wrapped in a tin lizzy tshirt we found a gold plated box approximately 12 inches square." he turned and pointed at a photograph of a fantastic box on a black felt mat. there were several ivory carvings, jewels, strange symbols and intricate metal work on the faces shown. "it was inside this box that we found....." his eyes left the camera for the first time. "it was in this box that we found..........