I write messages to the sea and sometimes they’re answered.
I spend my time wandering the coastline, my footprints in the sand my only proof of existence. It is easy to be brought out of oneself here; thoughts release easily from the buzzing and scratching and chattering behind my eyes. The vastness of the water comforts me, and the silence claims a space in my being, soothing me into a gentle current.
Issue 10
LOST SHOAL
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Emily Fletcher is a writer from the North East of England currently completing a masters degree in English Literature with an interest in the Gothic. Her favourite Gothic novels turned TV shows are The Haunting of Hill House and The Turn of the Screw.