Dawn Hurton

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“Better a live doggerel than a dead Lake Poet” by Dawn Hurton

Submitted to Contest #121

Pa pushed another heft of carcass into my unripe arms. I staggered down to the cellar, burdened the bloody mass to the butchering table and turned about for the next.I tramped back and forth through that sawdust twenty times and more a day, carrying quartered animal parts. I helped him split the cuts, salt the joints and take the meat back upstairs to hook on the brass rail at the front of the shop.The regulars came in cheerfully to purchase their victuals, gesticulating at the counter and passing the time of day. After they headed home I'd ...

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Based in the English Lake District, I'm writing a collection of short stories to accompany my work as a visual artist. I create story boxes and automata as invocations for the re-enchantment of place. They are based on characters from the strong rooms of the local archives where I was once employed doing the outreach.