Welcome to the world hidden behind the everyday. These stories of urban strangeness explore what goes on within the dying embers of the fire, once the heat has almost gone.

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An ill-fated property search leads firstly to admission, then a strange form of retribution; and, ultimately, a terrifying reunion... Pocock witnesses something on the river bank which changes the course of his life... Did it really lead to him discovering the true source of the River Lea?... Rural Australia proves less welcoming than Preston had hoped, forcing him to confront the guilt from his past... In Building Bridges, Brentwood realises just how much he has neglected his family; will he live to regret it?