I was pleased to be asked to contribute to the Irish Times Summer fiction series on the theme of Escape. You can read my story here:
It’s a cheery offering called ‘At the Dungeon’. It didn’t turn out to be a particularly summery story, though it does explore various forms of escape. It’s fiction, but was inspired by my personal response to a visit to a dungeon, one of the ‘fun’, tourist attraction kind. Other parts of the story draw on visits I made to London over the years. I was in Edinburgh the day the story was published and coincidentally found myself outside another dungeon, hence the photo.
