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Mandrake Petals and Scattered Feathers
In The Ship In The Forest, Cummonly, a mermaid-like creature ‘wore a skirt blue as the ocean to hide the web which bound her legs. These legs, if legs they be, were covered all over in scales, and at night she dreamt of the sea.’
Cummonly lives in the forest, where a lost ship comes sailing across the tree-tops.
This collection of stories draws on the roots of mythologies, whilst inventing its own:
A flower grows from a stone and turns into a boy, macabre puppets are stitched from human skin, Crow Jack prowls the brackish fields, a boy with the head of a gull lives in a croft on the beach and the Moon Mother gives birth to a dog… ‘a quivering cur, a slathering hound that slouched off into the shadows.’
Cummonly lives in the forest, where a lost ship comes sailing across the tree-tops.
This collection of stories draws on the roots of mythologies, whilst inventing its own:
A flower grows from a stone and turns into a boy, macabre puppets are stitched from human skin, Crow Jack prowls the brackish fields, a boy with the head of a gull lives in a croft on the beach and the Moon Mother gives birth to a dog… ‘a quivering cur, a slathering hound that slouched off into the shadows.’
286 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2021
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