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Hours of the Chalk Coast
Twelve Field Essays on Solitude, Weather, and Craft
Walking a hundred miles of pale limestone headlands across a single calendar year, these twelve essays trace how landscape, notebooks, and silence shape long-form prose.
"Reads like a quiet walk beside cold water with a writer who notices everything."
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SAMPLE PAGES & READING NOTES
Essay I — Sea Fog and Sentence Length
Fog shortens a walker’s stride before she realizes she has slowed down. Within twenty yards of the cliff path, distance stops behaving like geometry and starts behaving like sound.
A paragraph drafted indoors wants to explain the whole horizon at once; a paragraph drafted in sea mist trusts the next sentence to arrive when the ground requires it.
