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Stories of Life

Also featuring stories of drafts and edits Outside the window, the world warms, stories of life everywhere. Swirls of storks climb invisible spirals. Beneath, strata of swallows manoeuvre, twist, brake and snatch, manoeuvre, twist, brake and snatch. Lower still, plummeting…

On Naming Storms

When you live in the north of Scotland, whether Orkney — where I grew up — or Caithness, where I currently stay, you are used to storms. High winds, ridiculous seas, horizontal rain, sleet, hail and snow, items that shouldn’t…