"And it wasn’t long before it wasn’t just them, and others followed them into shadow, hid away with them, spoke with them in a language they had carried with them their entire lives but had only just learnt to speak, between the draws and the sips of whatever it was that was handed to them. Sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter, sometimes neither. Whatever it was it pulled them further away from the sun." |
Drew Townsend’s inspiration is the land in which he has spent most of his life. His influences are William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, William Gay and Larry Brown to name a few. His work has previously been published in The Curlew, a literary nature journal, and his story “The Outer Edge of Light” was shortlisted for The Cambridge Short Story Prize 2020, and was published online at TSS Publishing. He is also an alumnus of Edinburgh University’s Creative Writing masters.
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