The little girl clambered into her wooden bed and pulled the wool blanket up to her chin. Lying back on her straw mattress she could see the lighthouse through her tiny bedroom window. The lighthouse was painted white and it stood proud atop a small rocky outcrop surrounded by crashing seas. In the summer months, […]
Read more...The little girl clambered into her wooden bed and pulled the wool blanket up to her chin. Lying back on her straw mattress she could see the lighthouse through her tiny bedroom window. The lighthouse was painted white and it stood proud atop a small rocky outcrop surrounded by crashing seas. In the summer months, […]
Read more...Chapter 13 The manorial court rolls in medieval times mentions Jacob’s Acres as common land used by villeins to raise cattle, sheep and grow cereals. Under the feudal system they paid dues every year to the Lord of the Manor. When the Enclosure Act came into being in the early 1700s land was parcelled up, […]
Read more...Chapter 10 Simon Padfoot is looking over his business plans for the fifty houses on Jacob’s Acres. He will trigger his option to purchase as soon as planning is granted. The vendor is a Cayman Island Trust Fund, the real owner is surrounded in secrecy. All his dealings to date have been through a large, […]
Read more...Chapter 10 Simon Padfoot is looking over his business plans for the fifty houses on Jacob’s Acres. He will trigger his option to purchase as soon as planning is granted. The vendor is a Cayman Island Trust Fund, the real owner is surrounded in secrecy. All his dealings to date have been through a large, […]
Read more...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 […]
Read more...The Man In The Lighthouse When the little girl clambered into her wooden bed she could see through a tiny window a light house that stood proud on the tip of rocky land close by her croft. In the summer months, when darkness was brief, she could see the two lighthouse keepers moving about in […]
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