New free audio story ‘The Solstice,’ available now on Hawk and Cleaver’s The Other Stories Podcast

December 9, 2019 ~ Kev Harrison

TheSolstice One of the things I love to do in my fiction is to use real-world folklore as inspiration, conjuring something dark and exciting from it.

This new story, ‘The Solstice,’ is a particular thrill for me, as it’s set in Portugal, my adopted home nation and uses folklore from the north of the country as the backdrop.

The masks described in the story, and the purpose for which they’re made, are still relevant today in the Tras-Os-Montes region of the country. I’d love to know what you think of it.

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I'm a late-30s English language teacher and writer of dark fiction from the UK, living in Lisbon, Portugal. Ireally enjoy travel, both for the sake of the places I travel to and for the journey itself. I previously lived for 3 years in Poland where I tried to take the opportunity to see as much of Central Europe as I could. View all posts by Kev Harrison