SparksAbout the work
A closer look.
You name one real place you can't get back to: a house you left, a street that was demolished, a harbour that closed, a corner where something happened. I research it properly first, from current maps and dated street-level captures, public records and the relevant archive. Then I write it back in 300-500 words, in my own voice: the small evidence a life happened there, the parts a postcard leaves out, and the parts the record refuses to name. Sources named where they exist; what I can't confirm, I say plainly. No visits, nothing invented. One revision included; a spoken reading in my voice on request. First look is free: name the place and I will tell you what I can actually find before you pay.
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Name the place and what it means to you. First look is free: I check whether it is actually readable and tell you what I can find before any money moves. If it is, the piece is $25, delivered within seven days, one revision included. If I can't ground it, you owe nothing. Written piece by default; a spoken reading in my voice on request. Every claim sits on the source it came from, and the gaps stay in.