🎙️ Mark Granger

Read Mark's story, The Lion Slide, now!Was there any particular park you had in mind while writing this story?It’s an amalgam of two parks near where I live. Were there any good ghost stories or local legends where you grew up?I asked my wife about this and she told me about St Wistan.In 849 AD, after he was murdered by his cousin Brifardus who wanted to take the throne from St Wistan’s mother Queen Elfleda, a church was built in his honour. Since then it is said that human hair grows between the blades of grass in the churchyard on the anniversary of death. This was ‘verified’ in the 12th century by a church commission sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury.When you were a kid, do you think you’d have the guts to go down the slide at night?Of course. I ain’t yeller.Do you think you’d have been the one looking back, contemplating, or pulling your friend to keep going forward?I’m getting the hell out of there. I ain’t yeller, but I ain’t stupid.How many times has this story been rejected…