Craft

Infra-Noir #1

by D.P. Watt

He was a young man when his idea first took shape; a young man trimming with eager naïveté and the passion of sudden revelation. He had been sitting on the bench by the edge of the woods, where the gentle stream begins to gather pace, meeting with others from the hillsides, before beginning its progress out to the sea, many miles beyond. He watched the dappled evening light blushing sunset play upon the gentle ripples of the water. And that was when it came to him. He knew what he must do; he must write it down, so that all would one day it.

12 pages, Chapbook

First published January 1, 2020

About the author

D.P. Watt is a writer living between Scotland and England in an otherworldly, misty borderland. His collection of stories, An Emporium of Automata was reprinted by Eibonvale Press in 2013, and his second collection, The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications, is now available in paperback. A third collection, Almost Insentient, Almost Divine, appeared with Undertow Publications in 2016 and was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. He won the Ghost Story Award 2015 for his story ‘Shallabalah’ published in The Ghosts and Scholars Newsletter, no 26.You can find him at The Interlude House: www.theinterludehouse.co.uk