Just posted a new story called Midsummer on my Story Fragments Blog. It is inspired by the heights above Windemere in the Lake District as seen in the photo above. Here are the first few lines:
She pushed aside the soaked sacking that hung across the entrance to her rough stone shelter and peered out. She could make no sense of the all-too-familiar mountainside through the solid wall of rain. The longest day! It had taken a long time coming … (read on).