Lydia Waites is a Yorkshire based writer and Creative Writing PhD graduate specialising in short fiction and folklore. She is a Fiction Editor for The Lincoln Review and her work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, Door Is a Jar, Streetcake Magazine, Porridge Magazine, Infested Publishing, York Literary Review and more.

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This Place is a Message

By LYDIA WAITES

If grief has a half-life, then Isla’s is nuclear and will live beyond her, beyond language.