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Bas-relief of Ancient Rome vigiles by Carlo Sorgi (1941) at the Italian National Firefighters Training School When I wrote a post about Ancient Roman law enforcement, I discovered how complicated the system was. Vigiles were principally firefighters but carried out policing duties as well and cohortes urbanae were heavy duty riot police. They’d […] 
Dresden by night along the River Elbe Photo by Kolossos, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Character and plot are the elements that drive a story for me, but neither can work properly without interaction with the setting in each scene. It can be weather, time of day, city, village, mountains, muddy road, […] 
The first few pages… The ringtone echoed through the trees around the lake. Mel grabbed her phone. ‘Des Pittones. Bonjour.’ ‘Mel! Mel!’ ‘Mum?’ Mel turned over and pulled herself up on her elbows. Her fair hair, damp from swimming, fell both sides of her face. […] |
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