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Author · Storyteller
Isla Hughes
@islahughes
Writer of speculative fiction with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
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About the writer
Isla Hughes writes speculative fiction and literary fiction. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Isla Hughes
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Early draft
The Quiet Archive
When a municipal library in Dublin begins receiving books that have not yet been written, cataloguer Nessa Vale notices the arrivals always seem to predict small private losses before they happen. As the pattern spreads through the city, she is drawn into a hidden system of preservation, where memory can be stored, edited, or quietly erased. The trouble is that some things only survive by being left alone.
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