Fiction

Fieldgate Street

WORDS: Bobby Seal IMAGES: David Hoffman [© David Hoffman] Introduction: When I was a student in London in the 1970s I lived …

Uncanny Waters: Life and Death by Coasts and Canals

LOCATION 1: London, The Social, 28th February – tickets here LOCATION 2: Hastings, Electric Palace Cinema, 2nd March 2018 – …

Brexit, Landslip, Divorce & a Very Sussex Apocalypse

WORDS: Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: Hastings, East Sussex The Stone Tide: Adventures at the End of the World is an …

The Digger’s Tale

LOCATION: Hertfordshire  WORDS: George Sandison Arthur saw it first, or what was left of it after the digger had sheared …

Baleen

WORDS: Gary Budden LOCATION: Kent There was all the stuff you’d expect; heart lungs liver kidneys etc. Baleen thick and …

Port Lympne: Matrimony at the Fascist Zoo

LOCATION: Kent WORDS & PICTURES: Kit Caless One gentle morning the post arrived when I was working from home. I …

Dredged From the Memories of Glen Reid

LOCATION: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire WORDS: Paul Case (with help from Glen Reid) It’s 2004. Glen and I sit in his front room, …

Astronaut, Spelunker, Deep Sea Diver*

WORDS & FILM: Emma Bolland LOCATION: Somewhere in Staffordshire, possibly… This is a true and faithful transcript of the story …

The Ape Dreams of Charles Dawson & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

LOCATION: East Sussex WORDS: Gareth E Rees Charles Dawson was the Uckfield solicitor who discovered Piltdown Man in East Sussex …

The Eel with a Head the Size of an Armchair

LOCATION: Dover WORDS: Gareth E. Rees In the waters of Dover harbour, there was an eel with a head the …