Dugald Bruce Lockhart

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298 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2020 last heard Sep 2020

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And a gradual little thing comes out, and he thinks, what's that?
It looks like a caterpillar.
It turns out it's a finger.
He looks back.
The door is shut.
Curious, he picks up some paper, scrunches it up, and throws it to the door.
And the dog runs over.
And in the reflection...
A hand shoots out, grabs the dog, rips it up with blood everywhere and drags it off.
In real life, he turns around, the dog's absolutely fine, comes trotting back.
He goes to bed feeling a bit strange about the whole thing.
Wakes up in the morning and when he comes down for breakfast, the dog's there and he catches himself in reflection, but the dog's reflection has gone.
Now, what happens is that he starts to realize that there's another creature, another whatever it is, living on the other side of these mirrors.
And it's how he copes with that.
Again, the tension, the setting, the feel of place, the storm, all of that absolutely instilled in me.
And the framework narrative in particular really affected me.
In fact, my first play that I wrote was actually my first short story.
And it was written as a letter and a framework narrative.
So that framework device was something that really influenced me.
And once I decided to move the novel into the first person,
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