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Catherine Leyshon

Catherine Leyshon writes short and shortish fiction from her Falmouth home and has a pleasing fistful published in a variety of outlets.

Welcome to Cornwall – the one you might not know about

“Welcome to Cornwall – the one you might not know about” was hilarious and yet sensitively pried open the darker side of second homes, the closure of Crofty and living four miles from the sea in Camborne, Pool and Redruth but never having visited or even seen it.

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111 Days by Ross James

The trip began one October night in 2001. In the utter darkness of the high seas, I transferred from a fishery patrol ship to a rusty old trawler more than 200 miles from land, somewhere on Newfoundland’s Grand Banks. All I had by way of a handover was a note from my predecessor warning of a recent traumatic death on board the ship and his suspicions about the vessel fishing illegally.