Extract from Work-in-Progress The Cuckoo and the Cuckquean: a story about feminism and the Spanish Suffragettes.
"They met in the limbo of the estuary, where a river meandered through the marshlands, dispersing across the mud-laden landscape until it reached the sea. Rosa stood for hours watching the long-legged wader birds padding across the wetland, and gulls gliding overhead in carefree flight. She listened to the canes whispering in the wind and gazed at the salt flats stretched out to an endless horizon, as if promising her the world.
That morning she’d been wading through the waterlilies looking for eggs from the white-headed ducks that nested in the bulrushes and he had been riding his horse, weighed down by saddle-bags full of salt."
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