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Out Today! As the Crows Fly

This is my obligatory blog-post for a new release…this time it’s As the Crows Fly, which is another short story—11,500 words—in the Reworked Celtic Myths collection. The stories are a loose set of contemporary stories set in Wales, and the seed of each one comes from a Welsh or Irish legend.

As the Crows Fly. A short contemporary gay romance. With Crows.

The seed for As the Crows Fly is the story of St Kevin. He is the patron saint of crows and ravens, which is why I chose him. He is said to have been born in 498 CE and died in 618 and spent a long time being a hermit in a small cave in Glendalough in Ireland, where a large teaching monastery eventually grew up around him. He liked animals a lot more than people and apparently once nearly drowned a lady who tried to seduce him. He didn’t succeed—she became a nun instead. He is said to have stood still for weeks when a blackbird made a nest in his hand and laid an egg there, waiting for the egg to hatch.

I didn’t put any of that in, because drowning your lovers is a bit off and standing still for weeks waiting for eggs to hatch is an unexciting story. I just took the crows bit and the animals bit and ran with it, and here we are!

I had fun writing it and I hope you enjoy the story.

As the Crows Fly

Cover, As the Crows Fly

Paul Webster has come out the army after a twenty-two year stretch with a trick hip and no idea what to do with his life. He takes a few weeks walking along the Welsh coast to get his head on straight.

Kevin Davies is a veterinary nurse and an artist. He’s getting lonelier and lonelier in his cottage on the edge of the sea, kept company by his cats and a friendly flock of crows.

What happens when the two men hunker down together to wait out a wild March gale?

A 11,500-word short story in the Reworked Celtic Myths series. This time, there are crows.

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