The Ember Lights

From here around the camp fire I would like to say Merry Christmas or have a brilliant Winter holiday to those of other faiths and religions. But to everyone have a wonderful time spent with friends, families and those who you love and cherish and have your own wonderful adventures to make your own stories to tell after Winter is over, because some of the best tales told are from those that we live ourselves. So from here at The Ember Lights have a Merry Christmas and a brilliant New Year much love and big bear hugs to you all. Martyn Sudlow-McKay

Since I was a kid writing out the plots of stories has been something of a hobby of mine there has never been an intension for them to be published or for them to be read by other people, it’s just been fun to create all these different types of characters, worlds and stories ranging from the emotional life of someone coping with loss and mental illness to epic journeys through the vast openness of space. But recently I’ve toyed with an idea, back when I was a kid, apparently one thing that I had a bit of a knack for was writing short stories I remember two in particular both of them were ghost stories, one was about a man haunted by the ghost of his dead wife which was titled Eleanor and the second one was about a haunted hotel I can’t remember the name of that one, but I do remember that the teachers thought that they were good although I was about fourteen at the time so they probably had to be more positive with a child than a now fully grown adult. A few years later I wrote ...