Midnight Stories fiction 25 ”—Melissa Urban

”—Melissa Urban

the whitewashed hilltop villages of Zahara de la Sierra

[Blue Ruin is] a darkly ironic tale of two bubbles—an art world divorced from economic reality and a Covid era that segregated us from society

‘Every recipe strikes the perfect balance between comfort and excitement’ - Ixta Belfrage In her debut cookbook

Stranger Things and The Haunting of Hill House

Midnight Stories fiction 25 ”—Melissa UrbanA raw deal can leave you dead in the water *The life of a country bumpkin is worth no more than a melon? The boat dwellers upriver have been punting watermelons down to the market by Tiexing bridge for as long as the townsfolk can remember. A precarious relationship at the best of times, things quickly turn sour when a peddler turns up dead, prompting a pitched battle between fruit vendors and their urban clients. In the uneasy peace that follows, a