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        • A Measure of Trouble
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        • Source
      • C.J. Adrien
        • The Line of His People
        • The Oath Of The Father
      • Warren Alexander
        • Cousins' Club
      • Z.A. Angell
        • The Legacy Of The Marshall Cousins
      • Richard M. Ankers
        • The Eternals
        • Hunter Hunted
        • Into Eternity
      • Malcolm Archibald
        • A Wild Rough Lot
        • Our Land of Palestine
        • Shadow of the Wolf
        • The Swordswoman
        • Windrush
        • Windrush - Crimea
        • Dance If Ye Can
        • Like The Thistle Seed: The Scots Abroad
      • Robert Jay Arnold
        • The Tales of Master Trey's Flawless Outlaws
      • Jackson Baer
        • The Lights Will Never Fade
      • Ronald Bagliere
        • Beyond The Veil
        • Loving Neil
        • Starting Over
        • The Lion Of Khum Jung
      • Gwen Banta
        • Inside Sam Lerner
        • With Wanton Disregard
      • Casey Bartsch
        • Behind The Red Curtain
        • Strawberries
      • Jina S. Bazzar
        • Heir of Ashes
      • Simone Beaudelaire
        • Baylee Breaking
        • Devin's Dilemma
        • High Plains Holiday
        • Keeping Katerina
        • Polar Heat
        • The Naphil's Kiss
        • When The Music Ends
        • When The Words Are Spoken
        • When The Heart Heals
        • Caroline's Choice
      • Lorelei Bell
        • Ascension
        • Caprice
        • Crescendo
        • Holy Devil
        • Murder Mansion
        • Nocturne
        • Party To A Murder
        • Requiem
        • Spell of the Black Unicorn
        • The Cat Whisperer
        • Trill
        • Vampire, My Own
      • John Bentley
        • And They Danced Under The Bridge
      • Derrick Bickley
        • The Hit-and-Run Man
      • Stewart Bint
        • To Rise Again
      • Isobel Blackthorn
        • A Matter of Latitude
        • Clarissa's Warning
        • The Unlikely Occultist
      • David Blixt
        • Stone and Steel
        • The Four Emperors
        • What Girls Are Good For
      • David Booker
        • The Soul Cage
      • June V. Bourgo
        • Winter's Captive
      • S.T. Boston
        • The Silent Neighbours
        • Watchers
      • Emmerson Brand
        • Spirit of Fire
      • Don Broyles
        • Doughboy And Other Strange Tales
      • Joshua Buller
        • Against All Instinct
        • Broken Soul
      • D.M. Cain
        • A Chronicle of Chaos
        • The Phoenix Project
        • The Shield Of Soren
      • Sam Cairns
        • The Witch With The Wonky Broomstick
      • Nicole Campbell
        • What Comes Of Eating Doughnuts With A Boy Who Plays Guitar
      • Natalie J. Case
        • Forever
        • Through Shade And Shadow
      • K.A. Castillo
        • The Convenience of Lies
      • Angela B. Chrysler
        • Broken
        • Dolor And Shadow
        • Fire And Lies
        • Zombies From Space... And Vampires
      • Christopher Coates
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        • The Resurrection Wager
      • Mari Collier
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      • RjCook
        • The Road Behind Me
        • Dream Lover & Other Tales
      • Mike Covell
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        • Frederick Bailey Deeming - Jack The Ripper or Something Worse?
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        • Jack the Ripper - Newspapers from Hull vol. 1
        • Jack the Ripper - Newspapers from Hull vol. 2
        • Jack The Ripper - The Black Magic Myth
        • Leather Apron, Jack The Ripper And The Whitechapel Murders ​Of 1888
        • Marfleet Murder Mystery
        • The Rise of the Silver Hatchet Gang
        • Edwin Brough, Scalby Manor and the hunt for Jack The Ripper
        • Jack The Ripper - The Hull Connection
      • James J. Cudney
        • Academic Curveball
        • Broken Heart Attack
        • Father Figure
        • Watching Glass Shatter
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      • Johan M. Dahlgren
        • Under A Dark Sky
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        • The Bandit
        • The Gael Gates
        • The Heir
        • The Peasant
        • War Child
      • Mary Deal
        • Down To The Needle
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        • Off Center In The Attic
        • River Bones
        • Sea Cliff
        • The Howling Cliffs
        • The Ka
      • Patrick Dent
        • Execution Of Justice
      • Michael DeVault
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      • Sonja Dewing
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      • Donovan Gray
        • The Eighth Day
      • Elly Grant
        • Death At Presley Park
        • Palm Trees in the Pyrenees
        • Grass Grows in the Pyrenees
      • Joseph E. Green
      • A.J. Griffiths-Jones
        • The Circus
        • The Congregation
        • The Expats
        • The Seasiders
        • The Villagers
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      • Harry Hammer
        • Bars, Bouncers, Bad Guys & Beyond
      • Petteri Hannila
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      • Matthew W. Harrill
        • Hellbounce
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        • Hellbeast
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        • The Focus Stone
        • The Path Of Dreams
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      • George Henry
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        • Recycled Love
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        • Utopia
      • Patrick Hodges
        • Joshua's Island
        • Ethan's Secret
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      • Erik Hofstatter
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      • Jason Komito
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      • Doug Lamoreux
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      • Diana Rubino
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      • V.M. Sang
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      • Nick Sweet
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    • Authors: A-C
      • Zach Abrams
        • A Measure of Trouble
        • Made A Killing
        • Written To Death
        • Offender Of The Faith
        • Ring Fenced
        • Source
      • C.J. Adrien
        • The Line of His People
        • The Oath Of The Father
      • Warren Alexander
        • Cousins' Club
      • Z.A. Angell
        • The Legacy Of The Marshall Cousins
      • Richard M. Ankers
        • The Eternals
        • Hunter Hunted
        • Into Eternity
      • Malcolm Archibald
        • A Wild Rough Lot
        • Our Land of Palestine
        • Shadow of the Wolf
        • The Swordswoman
        • Windrush
        • Windrush - Crimea
        • Dance If Ye Can
        • Like The Thistle Seed: The Scots Abroad
      • Robert Jay Arnold
        • The Tales of Master Trey's Flawless Outlaws
      • Jackson Baer
        • The Lights Will Never Fade
      • Ronald Bagliere
        • Beyond The Veil
        • Loving Neil
        • Starting Over
        • The Lion Of Khum Jung
      • Gwen Banta
        • Inside Sam Lerner
        • With Wanton Disregard
      • Casey Bartsch
        • Behind The Red Curtain
        • Strawberries
      • Jina S. Bazzar
        • Heir of Ashes
      • Simone Beaudelaire
        • Baylee Breaking
        • Devin's Dilemma
        • High Plains Holiday
        • Keeping Katerina
        • Polar Heat
        • The Naphil's Kiss
        • When The Music Ends
        • When The Words Are Spoken
        • When The Heart Heals
        • Caroline's Choice
      • Lorelei Bell
        • Ascension
        • Caprice
        • Crescendo
        • Holy Devil
        • Murder Mansion
        • Nocturne
        • Party To A Murder
        • Requiem
        • Spell of the Black Unicorn
        • The Cat Whisperer
        • Trill
        • Vampire, My Own
      • John Bentley
        • And They Danced Under The Bridge
      • Derrick Bickley
        • The Hit-and-Run Man
      • Stewart Bint
        • To Rise Again
      • Isobel Blackthorn
        • A Matter of Latitude
        • Clarissa's Warning
        • The Unlikely Occultist
      • David Blixt
        • Stone and Steel
        • The Four Emperors
        • What Girls Are Good For
      • David Booker
        • The Soul Cage
      • June V. Bourgo
        • Winter's Captive
      • S.T. Boston
        • The Silent Neighbours
        • Watchers
      • Emmerson Brand
        • Spirit of Fire
      • Don Broyles
        • Doughboy And Other Strange Tales
      • Joshua Buller
        • Against All Instinct
        • Broken Soul
      • D.M. Cain
        • A Chronicle of Chaos
        • The Phoenix Project
        • The Shield Of Soren
      • Sam Cairns
        • The Witch With The Wonky Broomstick
      • Nicole Campbell
        • What Comes Of Eating Doughnuts With A Boy Who Plays Guitar
      • Natalie J. Case
        • Forever
        • Through Shade And Shadow
      • K.A. Castillo
        • The Convenience of Lies
      • Angela B. Chrysler
        • Broken
        • Dolor And Shadow
        • Fire And Lies
        • Zombies From Space... And Vampires
      • Christopher Coates
        • The Ark
        • The Resurrection Wager
      • Mari Collier
        • Before We Leave
        • Earthbound
        • Fall and Rise of the Macas
        • Gather The Children
        • Return of the Maca
        • Thalia and Earth
        • Twisted Tales From The Desert
        • Twisted Tales From The Northwest
        • Twisted Tales From The Universe
      • RjCook
        • The Road Behind Me
        • Dream Lover & Other Tales
      • Mike Covell
        • Annie Chapman - Wife, Mother, Victim
        • Frederick Bailey Deeming - Jack The Ripper or Something Worse?
        • Jack The Ripper and the Maybrick Family
        • Jack the Ripper - Newspapers from Hull vol. 1
        • Jack the Ripper - Newspapers from Hull vol. 2
        • Jack The Ripper - The Black Magic Myth
        • Leather Apron, Jack The Ripper And The Whitechapel Murders ​Of 1888
        • Marfleet Murder Mystery
        • The Rise of the Silver Hatchet Gang
        • Edwin Brough, Scalby Manor and the hunt for Jack The Ripper
        • Jack The Ripper - The Hull Connection
      • James J. Cudney
        • Academic Curveball
        • Broken Heart Attack
        • Father Figure
        • Watching Glass Shatter
    • Authors: D-G
      • Johan M. Dahlgren
        • Under A Dark Sky
      • Scott Michael Decker
        • Bawdy Double
        • Cube Rube
        • Doorport
        • Drink The Water
        • Edifice Abandoned
        • Gemstone Wyverns
        • Glad You're Born
        • Half-Breed
        • Inoculated
        • Legends of Lemuria
        • Organo-Topia
        • Sword Scroll Stone
        • The Bandit
        • The Gael Gates
        • The Heir
        • The Peasant
        • War Child
      • Mary Deal
        • Down To The Needle
        • Legacy Of The Tropics
        • Off Center In The Attic
        • River Bones
        • Sea Cliff
        • The Howling Cliffs
        • The Ka
      • Patrick Dent
        • Execution Of Justice
      • Michael DeVault
        • Anything But Ordinary
        • The Patriot Joe Morton
      • Sonja Dewing
      • John Reinhard Dizon
        • Generations
        • King of the Hoboes
        • Nightcrawler
        • Penny Flame
        • Strange Tales
        • The Plague
        • Tiara
        • Tryzub
        • Vampir
        • Wolfsangel
        • The Test
      • Troy Dukart
      • Ed Duncan
      • David Melville Edwards
        • The Spirit of the Age
      • Jim Ellis
        • One Summer
        • The Last Hundred
        • The Music Room
      • Andie J. Fessey
      • Vicki Fitzgerald
        • Briguella
      • L.E. Fitzpatrick
        • Border Lines
        • Every Storm Breaks
        • The Running Game
      • John Frates
        • Goose Pit Hash
      • Dormaine G
        • The Keepers
        • Connor Revealed
      • Eve Gaal
        • Penniless Hearts
        • The Fifth Commandment
      • A.J. Gallant
      • Craig Gaydas
        • Reborn
        • The Cartographer
        • The Guardian Chronicles
        • The Last Hero
        • Timeless
        • Vendetta
      • Mark D. Giglio
        • Alchemist Gift
      • Carole Gill
        • Circus of Horrors
        • House of Horrors
        • I, Bathory, Queen of Blood
        • Justine
        • The Blackstone Vampires Omnibus
        • The Fourth Bride
        • The House on Blackstone Moor
        • Unholy Testament - The Beginnings
        • Unholy Testament - Full Circle
      • J.W. Goodwin
        • By The Light of a Darkened Forest
      • C.M. Gray
        • Chaos Storm
        • Shadowland
        • The Flight of the Griffin
        • The Shadow of a King
      • Donovan Gray
        • The Eighth Day
      • Elly Grant
        • Death At Presley Park
        • Palm Trees in the Pyrenees
        • Grass Grows in the Pyrenees
      • Joseph E. Green
      • A.J. Griffiths-Jones
        • The Circus
        • The Congregation
        • The Expats
        • The Seasiders
        • The Villagers
    • Authors: H-L
      • Harry Hammer
        • Bars, Bouncers, Bad Guys & Beyond
      • Petteri Hannila
        • The Fargoer
      • Matthew W. Harrill
        • Hellbounce
        • Hellborne
        • Hellbeast
        • The Eyes Have No Soul
        • The Focus Stone
        • The Path Of Dreams
      • C.A. Hartway
        • Day of Rain
      • George Henry
        • Blood Rain In Trieste
        • Recycled Love
      • L.J. Higgins
        • Arcadia
        • Eden
        • Elysium
        • Utopia
      • Patrick Hodges
        • Joshua's Island
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One Summer

one-summer
Nathan Forrest lived in Westburn, a town built by the river, its fading glories sprung from shipbuilding and marine engineering, many of its 80,000 souls sustained by stoicism and God's Mercy. The workers were crammed into tenements and drab estates on the edges of the town; the better off enjoyed a spacious suburb to the west. The working people felt compensated by the beauty of the river and the views of the mountains. The middle classes took it all for granted.

Nathan saw only High Summer in Westburn, and was blind to winter coming. In 1958 orders replacing wartime losses had dried up, but the yards held on, building new ships.

When he left the Army, Nathan had mastered welding and now worked on the submarines building for the Royal Navy. Had he lifted his eyes he might have seen that this way of life was mouldering. But Nathan made good money and did not worry that class solidarity was dying, and management control of the business of shipbuilding was slipping.

The yard managers knew how to build ships, but they hadn't a clue about leadership and had no respect for the men. At ten o'clock every morning, they sat in warm offices, drinking tea and nibbling biscuits served on Company china by liveried tea ladies from the Management Restaurant; the staff obtained refreshments from the Staff Canteen. The men took an unofficial break, hiding in draughty corners of part-built hulls and steel fabrications, sneaking a bite of egg roll, slurping hot, sweet tea from a thermos flask or a tea can. Sometimes the men's meal was disrupted when an aggressive young manager, or an old management hard case feeling his oats, raided the hiding places, chasing the men back to work.

One Thursday, a senior manager, an old warhorse, ambushed a tea boy brewing up for his squad and booted the tin tea cans to the ground, trampling them underfoot. The boy, cowering from the manager's rage, tripped on an upturned tea can and fell. It looked as if the manager had pushed the boy to the ground, and Nathan was outraged when the boy got sacked. The fury of the men erupted in a wildcat strike, emptying the yard in twenty minutes. Nathan joining the hate-filled throng milling at the yard gate, refusing to disperse until management summoned the police.

The following Monday, management's stomach for the fight collapsed and the Tea Boy Strike ended when the manager apologized and the boy was reinstated.

But sometimes the unions sank low. A young manager saw a workman defecating inside a steel fabrication and dismissed him. Nathan was sickened by the man's filthy habits and agreed with the firing, but he doubted the judgement of the Unions, when the shop stewards fought and had the miscreant reinstated. Nathan retreated again from life in the yard and backed farther into his private world.

Some of Nathan's friends went abroad, but Nathan was impervious to the creeping rot killing the yard: the struggles of management and unions, and the ending of the old way of life. He turned aside from the decay surrounding him; Nathan was content and did not want to shift overseas, and have to deal with changes to his trade, and the way he lived. He was an elite welder earning good money, supporting what really mattered to him: his life outside the yard as a Jazz musician. It would have been better for Nathan were the yards to implode through sudden, unexpected crisis, driving him out of his crumbling niche, opening his eyes to the truths of his situation. Nathan was far from stupid and could have worked out the uncertainties and difficulties lying ahead; but he was indifferent to the struggles for respect; and heedless of the slow death rattle rising from shipbuilding and his people.

Nathan wrapped himself in a comforting blanket of tolerable wages and his other life in Jazz. It would take a great storm to set Nathan free.

Nathan was twenty-five of lean build and stood at five-foot ten inches. He dressed in sober, dark wool jackets and slacks. The cut was hip. Hip for Westburn and working class: drape jackets with sack back and narrow pants and well-polished loafers. He liked soft, solid coloured shirts and wool ties. With his dark hair cut short and neatly parted, he came close to the look favoured by some American Jazz musicians he'd seen at concerts in Glasgow.

That Friday, with the working week over, Nathan walked out the yard gate with Leo, an alto saxophone player and co-leader of the band. He offered to pick up Nathan and drive him to the Friday night gig, but Nathan preferred to walk.


Later that evening, Nathan went down the four stairs leading from the main door of the terraced house where he lived, looked across rooftops and through tall chimneys, free of smoke so close to mid summer. Nathan's eyes rested on the masts and funnels of vessels in the harbour, then moved on to the silhouettes of ships anchored in the river. He paused outside the house for a minute, taking in the views of the cranes; tall, sinister skeletons perched over the frames and hulls of part built vessels. And below them, invisible from the heights of Galt Place was the sub, a black, deep-sea creature, cramped and packed with weapons and machinery. He hated all of it; was sick of the hard drinking and coarsened lives that went with it and yet, grudgingly, Nathan admired the innovation and industry that created it. Perversely, he was proud of the ships that his people, the working class, built there.

Nathan and Leo were welders on the sub and would be back inside its confined spaces on Monday morning, bulky in pigskin jackets and gauntlets, the moleskin trousers: all this kit to protect them from burns; and the heavy boots with steel toe caps. Nathan seldom lost the feel of the tight beret on his head and the welding hood that fitted snugly over it. Monday to Friday, he stared through the dark window of the hood at the blue arc of the burning welding rod.

Nathan headed west to the affluent suburb and Westburn Rugby Club. At the end of Galt Place he turned to let his eyes linger on the full sweep of the small terraced villas and the house where he lived with Ma. Galt Place was elegant when built early in the 19th Century.

Now, carelessness and neglect enveloped Galt Place. Year by year, ruin gained. Peeling paint, crumbling stonework, stained windows, shabby entrances and stairs assaulted his eyes. But the quality of Victorian craftsmanship survived in the elegant bay windows, the deep eaves, ornate sofit boards and solid, hardwood doors.

Ma cared for their house, keeping paintwork and fitments neat and clean. She struggled against the indifference and despair of her neighbours. Nathan often wondered how long Ma and he could hold back the flood tide of decay.

Nathan liked walking through Westburn on the way to a gig, the Bach trumpet safe in its case tucked under his arm. He walked down the steep hill of Ann Street and entered The Square, past the old Empire Theatre, shabby now that it was closed and abandoned. There was no theatre, no variety shows or musicals in Westburn and had Nathan read the signs on billboards and in the local newspaper, he might have predicted that his great passion, Jazz, would struggle to be heard, as amateur folk groups mushroomed in popularity capturing gigs from musicians like himself. Had he looked closely he might have noticed that some venues for young people already preferred record hops to live musicians. He stared for a minute at the regal Municipal Buildings, raising his head to see the top of the Royal Tower soaring above.

Walking westwards, Nathan crossed the Great Divide of Westburn: Lord Nelson Street, lined with the symbols of authority: the Sheriff Court, the Grammar School, the established Protestant churches and in particular, the Town Kirk and its clock chiming the quarter hours, reminding Nathan's people that they did not belong west of this line. These buildings like Forts on Hadrian's Wall, a deterrent to entry by working class barbarians into middle class Valentia.

Nathan turned towards the river passing his old school that he habitually referred to as 'The Borstal for Retarded Tims.' His time there ended on a sour note when the School Chaplain, Father Brendan Toner, a cruel Irishman humiliated him in front of the class. It was a about a week before he was due to leave. Nathan was fourteen.

“Are you Catholic boy?” the Chaplain said.

“Yes, Father.”

“Are your parents Catholic?”

“Ma mother wis. She's dead. Ma father's dead. Ah don't know if he wis a Catholic.”

Behind him, Nathan heard the titters of the class.

“And were they married?”

Nathan felt the swelling in his throat and tears coming. He didn't answer.

“Who brought you up, boy?”

“Ma did.”

“And tell me boy, who is Ma; is she Catholic?”

Nathan fought back the tears, silently cursing the brute. The class was laughing now.

“Ma's ma Grandmother.”

“Ah,” the priest sighed. “Born out of wedlock. Why in Ireland, boy, a good Catholic family would've taken you in and fostered you.”

Cold rage took hold of Nathan; he'd had enough. “Ma an' me, we're a good Catholic family.”

The priest cuffed Nathan, hard and he staggered from the force of the blow. “Do not speak back to me, boy”

Nathan ran for the door, turning as he opened it. “Ya fuckin' ol' cunt,” he shouted.

He never went back to school and he finished with the Catholic Church.

The walk on the Esplanade by the river and the views of the mountains to the northwest banished the memories of the Irish priest. Nathan was a lone raider walking in the West End. He imagined the residents preferred that people like him, working class and Catholic, stay away. They were happy enough tolerating the tradesmen and the cleaning women who worked in the houses; and they did not mind too much the deliverymen bringing goods. Nathan liked to think of the consternation the residents of the West End might feel of a Sunday afternoon when his people came in large numbers, dressed in their Sunday best, family groups and friends walking and having a good look.

He laughed imagining the residents' sense of relief when the working classes began their slow retreat on a Sunday evening to the crowded enclaves of tenements and the new estates established at the frontier of Westburn.

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