Originally I thought this was part of DI Paula Parsons' backstory but it doesn't fit her anymore, so this is DI Hayley Carter, Parsons' predecessor, and I don't know how it ends exactly, except it ends with her being booted out of the force and Parsons taking her job. Featuring: police corruption, head trauma, murder… Continue reading #MonstrousMay 2023: The Doppelganger
Quatre Faces, Pagham-on-Sea, 1973 It was quiet when Linn woke up, a shaft of weak, sinking sunlight trailing over the edge of her orange dress, picking out a line of cold white flesh below the short hem, the rest of her in shadow. The window was boarded up from the inside, but one board was… Continue reading #MonstrousMay 2023: Trapped
1943: Nathan Porter's Journal EXPEDITION TO THE OUTSIDE This trip took me along the coastline a little further than I have explored before. I discovered, some way along, the carcass of a giant insectoid, with a monstrous head like a horse but with a mouth split all the way up the muzzle to the base… Continue reading #MonstrousMay: The Monster’s Wings
The Mermaid: A Brief Potted History There is apparently an old Sussex story about a giant knight (Sir Bevis) and a mermaid, which you can read here, but in Pagham-on-Sea The Mermaid is a pub. Don't confuse it with The Mermaid Inn in Rye, which is actually nice and somewhere to stay. No. Not that… Continue reading #MonstrousMay 2023: The Mermaid
Book Spotlight So, I'm not going to try and write something myself for this prompt, but I am going to highlight other books by indigenous authors set in this environment! I've got a thing for threes, so I'm going to highlight three books here. For Younger Readers Tales from the Tundra: A Collection of Inuit… Continue reading #MonstrousMay 2023: The Tundra
