Siphonophore

MacGregor is desperate to return home. Unfortunately, he’s marooned in the Gulf of Darién, following independent Scotland’s doomed colonisation attempt at the end of the 17th century. Worse still, he’s a character in a novel whose author is dying, and he’s running out of time. As the author’s preoccupations, memories and spiralling thoughts start to pollute MacGregor’s world, he finds his narrative eroding and his escape routes blocked. Desperately clinging to hope, MacGregor is determined to keep his Creator writing long enough to deliver him home. But will he be able to drive the story to its end before his Creator reaches theirs?

Author Biography

Jaimie Batchan grew up in Hook Norton, a village on the edge of the Cotswolds famous for its beer. He has lived in various places including Reading, Oxford, Lancaster and Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he worked as an English teacher, copy-editor, proof-reader and football journalist. He currently lives in East London with his partner and daughter and co-produces the literature podcast ‘Unsound Methods’.