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    Hooves Above The Waves: Tales Of Kelpies And Other Scottish Curiosities
    Hooves Above The Waves: Tales Of Kelpies And Other Scottish Curiosities
    Hooves Above The Waves: Tales Of Kelpies And Other Scottish Curiosities
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    Hooves Above The Waves: Tales Of Kelpies And Other Scottish Curiosities

    By Laura Clay

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    Long-forgotten creatures stir beneath a desolate Highland loch. Ordinary men with extraordinary powers realise they don’t have to play the heroes. A shipwrecked sailor wakes up in a remote lighthouse, far from home, and realises his safe haven is not as it seems.

    Three supernatural stories by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Emerging Writer Laura Clay, inspired by the landscape and mythology of Scotland. Features Loch na Bèiste, read at the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival as part of the Story Shop initiative.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLaura Clay
    Release dateDec 9, 2016
    ISBN9781370125869
    Hooves Above The Waves: Tales Of Kelpies And Other Scottish Curiosities
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    Laura Clay

    Laura lives in Edinburgh and loves to write about the supernatural creatures living all around us, the dark and horrific, and people living on the edges of society.Her short stories and flash fiction have been published by The Scottish Book Trust, appeared in anthologies and exhibited in The Museum of Childhood by writing collective 26, and her short story 'A Beltane Prayer' was published in the Umbrellas of Edinburgh anthology by Freight Books in November 2016. She was selected as one of 17 local emerging writers by City of Literature, and read her story 'Loch na Bèiste' at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as part of the Story Shop programme.She is currently querying her first novel, an urban fantasy set in Edinburgh.

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      Hooves Above The Waves - Laura Clay

      Hooves Above The Waves:

      Tales of Kelpies and Other Scottish Curiosities

      By Laura Clay

      Copyright

      Hooves Above The Waves: Tales Of Kelpies And Other Scottish Curiosities

      First edition, August 2016

      Copyright © 2016 Laura Clay

      Cover design © 2016 Chiara Pieri (http://www.chiarapieri.com/)

      The right of Laura Clay to be identified as author of this Work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All rights reserved.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author.

      Find out more about the author and upcoming books online at http://writingsfromotherworld.wordpress.com or on Twitter @uisgebeatha.

      Acknowledgements

      To my parents, for their support, endless tea, and no-nonsense pep talks.

      To Pete, for having to deal with being married to a writer.

      To Lorna Lynch, Michael Cunliffe, Dan Sheppard, Abs, and the Schismatics writing group for their invaluable feedback.

      To Chiara Pieri, for bringing my kelpie to life in her beautiful artwork.

      Finally, to Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature. You’re the reason I write, and I’m proud to call you home.

      Introduction

      Hello, and thank you for buying my little collection. These stories have come together over the past year, inspired by my travels around my hometown of Edinburgh and the rest of Scotland. Here’s a bit about each of them:

      Loch na Bèiste began life as a ‘true’ story. It was tucked away in a folder in Gairloch Heritage Museum, while I was on a self-imposed writing retreat in a friend’s cottage. I couldn’t shake the image of a haughty, blustering laird devoting so much time to killing a kelpie. (They don’t die that easily.) I was lucky enough to read this story at the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival, as part of the UNESCO City of Literature ‘Story Shop’ initiative which chooses 17 local emerging writers to showcase their work to a wider audience.

      Accounts Payable was written in response to a request to interpret ‘superheroes’. Phil is a secondary character in my urban fantasy novel, The Silent Storm, and not quite the mild-mannered, unassuming man he seems to be. Heroes can be found in the unlikeliest of places, though...

      Safe Harbour was also inspired by the area around Gairloch and Melvaig in Wester Ross. I stayed near the Rua Reidh lighthouse and often drove past the

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