The Swim

Have you ever stood by a pond and wondered: what if I jumped in?

That’s what the main character does in this short story, which I wrote in the Orangery (a very pretty cafe) in Kensington Gardens in London. It’s an extract from my short story collection Unusual Places, published by Cultured Llama. Click here to join my mailing list and download the story.

Here’s a video of me reading the story:

View all six posts on writing place in short stories here.

You can read more about the Orangery in Kensington Gardens here.

You can take more of a look behind the scenes of Unusual Places here.

I wrote these posts to celebrate the launch of the paperback and the ebook of Unusual Places.

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