Welcome to Northern Wordsmiths
We are a group of fiction writers based in the North East of England. On this blog, we share what we're up to and some of our work.
Author: Liam Telford
Liam is a carer and writer. A lifelong sci-fi and fantasy reader inspired by the craft of ‘worldbuilding’, he explores as many of the myriad worlds of fiction as he can lay his mitts on. He currently resides in Newcastle, daydreaming wild and vivid dreams of making something cool and fantastic in fictional writing and having people read it. He fully hopes to be a published author by the time he reaches thirty.
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It was Christmas in the orbit of Saturn, and on a station somewhere between the moons of Enceladus and Tethys, everything was going tits up. I was pulling into the dock ready to pick up my cargo when I received a several-days-late message from Huxian Mercantile, cheerfully informing me that my services were no longer…
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Old man Carnegal was a rough old bastard, or so he’d have you believe. Invalided out of the regular service years ago, he acted as though he was still at war, as though his old enemies were at the door, laying in wait for the slightest opportunity to strike him down. He never spoke about…
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Candlefolk don’t sleep as humans do. It would be more accurate to say we become temporarily dormant, our flame burning low as we rest in specially-crafted nooks and holders that prevent unintentional snuffings. It is a stark reminder that we are not natural creatures. I often find myself trying to think of how humans love…
Welcome to Northern Wordsmiths 