A scene from River Witch that in the end didn’t make the cut. It was definitely one of those ‘killing your darlings’ moments. Having it here on my website helps assauge the guilt!

Hester’s oldest brothers bring the story home. They heard it in the Red Lion, on the other side of the river, where they were waiting for the ferry. It was the middle of the day, not late, not at that point in a public house’s daily routine where the stories are stretched to the limits of their truth, when men s...