Stephanie sat in the worn-out holding area of the police station, waiting for the nice young man who had arrested her. She had plenty of time to think about the events of the last few months. She was a respectable seventy-eight-year-old woman. In her younger years she’d worked at the local biscuit factory, starting onContinue reading “Third Place: Stephanie’s Side Hustle by Clare Williams”
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Third Place: Beneath the Judas Hill by Glyn Matthews
Maggie Shaw lived below a bleak escarpment, hard against an unforgiving sky. A sore rib jutting from the Pennines, a shaper of winds. A place where Judas might have hanged himself. A place where ravens come to die. She was born there, helpless as any child. She lived and died by candlelight, departing as sheContinue reading “Third Place: Beneath the Judas Hill by Glyn Matthews”
Third Place: More Sky Than Anywhere by Chris Cottom
By the morning, the storm has blown itself out but left the village with no electricity. We wrap up and stroll down the hill to the ramshackle barn where, in faded black paint, a sign proclaims ‘Veg in Shed’. I point out the cluster of nests under the eaves and you tell me to expectContinue reading “Third Place: More Sky Than Anywhere by Chris Cottom”
