Category: Original Fiction
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The Tide That Remembers

Nevertheless, on a damp October morning, he found himself standing beside Sylvia and Lillian at the end of an old granite quay, watching fog settle over Falmouth harbour.
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Three Who Came to Build a Bridge

The bridge became whole without noise. For a long moment, the only sound was the river passing beneath. Then, as if remembering how, the church bells began to ring.
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The Woman Who Tried to Catch the Sea

“And yet every sailor who has ever crossed an ocean has carried a little of it home.”
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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.



