Paul Stewart
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Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.
The Accidental Poet - Poetry Collection out now!
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The Silence That Follows. Top Story - July 2024. Content Warning.
“Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and a more attuned ear, we become better listeners not only to nature but to each other. Silence can be carried like embers from a fire. Silence can be found, and silence can find you. Silence can be lost and also recovered. But silence cannot be imagined, although most people think so. To experience the soul-swelling wonder of silence, you must hear it.”― Gordon Hempton
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Fiction
Gerascophobia
Mal and Gillian had been at the little B&B in the wilds of Dorset for five days when she fell ill. Harold and Myra had been kind enough to extend their stay by a couple of days, just until Gillian felt well enough to make the trip back home to Manchester. The holiday had been absolutely perfect, for all its imperfections, like Mal's car backfiring and leaking oil, and Gillian being spooked by a couple of local girls dressed in scarecrow outfits. Aside from those incidents, it had been a beautiful time, the first they had managed to enjoy since lockdown ended and restrictions eased off. Harold and Myra were every bit the kind, eccentric, old-country English hosts various reviewers had described online.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Horror
