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Category: The Floating Harbour

Posted on Aug 4, 2019Aug 4, 2019

The Floating Harbour: Prologue & Chapter 1

I keep my seat, for now alone, my mind as the morning and the city: awake and peacefully awaiting more.

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Posted on Jul 27, 2019

She Rises Then: prologue to The Floating Harbour

I give voice to her name again, though I do not shift my gaze.

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Posted on Jul 18, 2019Jul 18, 2019

Praise for The Floating Harbour

Exaggerated, fabricated praise.

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Posted on Jul 14, 2019

Chapter list for The Floating Harbour

For All The Syllables, The Words…

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Posted on Jul 10, 2019Oct 27, 2019

The Floating Harbour: a serialised novel

Written between January, 2016 and August, 2019.

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Posted on Jul 6, 2019

Excerpts: a trailer for a novel

And all is rather still.

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