Featherweight by Eileen Lynch

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/featherweight-a-short-story-by-eileen-lynch-1.2769603

Dark story by Eileen Lynch in the Hennessey New Irish Writing feature of the Irish times. A school girl is having a dangerous affair with a much older man, mirrored in the menace of a tree full of crows in the garden.