A late short story, this functions as an epilogue to the ShoreZone sequence of 'stories from between worlds' (as yet unpublished). It could indeed be one of them; but it stands alone.
for (as yet unpublished) read (see below)
SHOREZONE: ‘stories from between worlds’.
In a range of nine locations, each made vividly present to the reader’s
eye, a troubling alternative dimension reveals itself: 1890s
Vienna, a Worcestershire garden, a rough island off Ireland’s north coast, a
midwinter city in Arctic Norway…
To be published by Strange Attractor press, 2023-24.