The Return Chapters 7-9 Chapter 7 ‘Hello, what can I do for you?’ Ask the Rector, as she is about to put on her blue clerical blouse and collar. A man has emerged silently through the vestry door into the robing room of St Mary’s. He is dressed as a clergyman in an old fashioned […]
Read more...Chapter 4 Sir Shackleton Huntswick is feeling out of sorts. The last council meeting had been perfectly satisfactory although there was worry that the planned housebuilding on Jacob’s Acres would do untold damage to the fabric of the village. Fifty new houses was a lot to absorb. The open pasture and burial mound held a […]
Read more...Author’s Note: This is a Novella, only 15000 words. The chapters are deliberately short. The following 3 installments will appear in another week. The Return: Chapters 1-3 Chapter 1 Dr. Kirsty Daventry slams her cottage door and on hearing the reassuring sound of the lock click into place, she places her hand into her wax […]
Read more...I have just completed a 15000 word Novella titled ‘The Return.’ It is contemporary ghost story set in a small rural community where past wrongs are righted, and current issues are challenged in unexpected ways by those who have gone before. The astonishing return of past ancestors causes mayhem in the local community but renews […]
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