Download the PDF of Wave Markers right now.
This is a work in progress and so far it is a hybridisation and expansion of a clutch of short stories I wrote at the end of 2020. The idea of melding them together was suggested by an enthusiastic friend who imagined my short tales morphing into something akin to Cloud Atlas (I wish). And, like a map of the clouds, wave markers could be as ephemeral and imagined…and perhaps as pointless. It’s a kind of Fenland Gothic in the “eco lit” genre, either way.
This short story expands on the journey of Madelief, a Dutch woman, perhaps from a religious order, walking through the natural world of the New Fenlands with a mission in mind, a refuge named on a scrap of bark, hidden in the folds of her clothing, and the idea of a seed in her belly. A seed that might rebuild the world after society is ravaged by disease and ever-higher tides…
You can read the latest iteration of the story Wave Markers in PDF format here for your Kindle etc. This is, at this point (January 2021) either the complete story or simply the prologue for an as yet unwritten proper debut novel from David Bradley, we’ll have to wait and see. I’ve also done some additional writing in a short story entitled Remediators of the Anthropocene, which has also now been subsumed into Wave Markers.