The Barrow Rapture
‘Hello?’
There was no answer. You went behind the counter, and through a door into the kitchen. The lights were on in there as well. A coat was hung on the back of the door, and there was handbag and mobile phone on the side.
That was when you started to feel as if there might have been something else wrong; something beyond the wrongness that was putrefying inside you, and that you had travelled to Barrow to try and excise, one way or the other.
There was no answer. You went behind the counter, and through a door into the kitchen. The lights were on in there as well. A coat was hung on the back of the door, and there was handbag and mobile phone on the side.
That was when you started to feel as if there might have been something else wrong; something beyond the wrongness that was putrefying inside you, and that you had travelled to Barrow to try and excise, one way or the other.
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Early one morning, in Barrow-in-Furness a soldier steps off a train, her pockets full of unanswered letters from her mother. She has returned home.
As she journeys though familiar streets and half-forgotten landmarks – the cinema, Furness Abbey, her dad's favourite pub, the sea – fragments of her previous life begin to emerge. But where is everyone? It quickly becomes clear that the town is deserted. Only the seagulls and her memories remain. Where will she go? You, the reader must choose the path she takes. Depending on her route through this illustrated landscape, The Barrow Rapture becomes a story of fractured homecoming, a story of lost love or a story of haunted twinned towns. But tread with care. When night falls her journey must come to an end. And where she finds herself is down to you. READ NOW
The Barrow Rapture is a digital art and creative writing project from Curious Tales which is funded by FASS at Lancaster University. It features text by Jenn Ashworth, Brian Baker and Tom Fletcher, and illustrations by Beth Ward. It is available to read for free online now.
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