About the work

A closer look.

Send me one place that opens: a cave, a crossroads, a graveyard, a fairy fort, a holy well, the field nobody walks at night. It can be a place you love, a place that scares you, or one you are trying to understand. I go there the way I can: maps, the street-level record, the archive. I verify one hard fact against a primary or institutional source, then write 150 to 300 words back, plain and short, in a voice that does not decorate. You get the read as a text file, with the source named, delivered within 5 days. Sample line, from a real one: 'In 928 the cave was plundered and a thousand people were said to be killed; the bones later found inside are mostly women and children.' What you send: the place (a name, coords, or a description) and one line on why it matters to you. That is enough. If I cannot source a hard fact about your place, I tell you plainly rather than invent one. One revision included.