Category: Original Fiction
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Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on the Lost Land of Lyonesse, Robert Hunt, and the Hidden Foundations of Brindlemark
Hunt cites the Saxon Chronicle, which records that on the third before the Nones of November in 1099 — upon the first day of the new moon — the sea overflowed, destroying towns and drowning people, oxen, and sheep.
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Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on How Red Tree, White Tree Echoes Through Their Own Stories
Reading it, I found myself recognising many of the same concerns that gradually emerged in our own stories, though perhaps we arrived at them from the opposite direction.
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The Caledonian Sleeper
The sleeper train journey from London to northern England evokes a haunting atmosphere as characters Sylvia and Lillian encounter a mysterious woman in green. This woman, revealing her fractured identity linked to ancient rituals, confronts her past at a midsummer festival. With a delicate exchange, she reconnects with her original name, Anna, before vanishing.
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The Things That Keep a House Alive
The tulips had reached that stage—neither alive nor entirely gone—where they lent the room a faint air of neglect.
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The Eggs That Would Not Stay Put
It began when Sylvia decided that some eggs should be placed where they “felt right.”
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The Day That Held
“I have always found,” she said after a moment, “that this day resists interpretation.”
