markle

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I have 126 stories published in 6 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 154187 times and 96 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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My stories

Sound Quality

“He laughed like the most serious child I ever knew, telling me the story about the country where everyone was deaf.” – Ilya Kaminsky Walking across...

Bank and Lowe

When I’m walking, I watch the landscape change around me. I try to read its past in its present shape. Sometimes there’s a line of trees that used to...
Cherry

Paths Back – Behind St Clement’s Church, Oxford

Traffic noise is always a given in Oxford. So much of the place is not-quite-city, not-quite-country, not-quite-suburb. At the foot of Headington...
Cherry

Iffley Church

(So many of these images are in winter.) The door of the church opens, and a child enters the gloomy space.

Open Field

The more I think about the countryside, the more machine-made it seems. But I still feel something irresistible urging me out there.

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