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Meet Me at the Surface
Meet Me at the Surface
Jodie Matthews | 2024 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy
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When Merryn returns to Bodmin Moor for her ex-girlfriends memorial, she starts to wonder if there’s a more sinister reason for her mother and aunt asking her to return. Well, there is.

Merryn’s family live on the outskirts of the village, in a house that seems to have a mind of its own. Her mother and aunt have a close relationship with nature and folklore, which brings us on to a big secret that has been kept from Merryn and will be revealed with devastating effect.

This isn’t a full on horror story, in that it’s not full of blood and guts (well, I say that…), but it is really unnerving. There’s something bubbling away under the surface that makes Merryn (and me!!) feel really uncomfortable. It was great writing.
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Morgan Sheppard (1036 KP) created a post

Jan 5, 2026  
✨ January’s Newsletter is Here ✨

The year is turning, the light is slowly returning, and I’m stepping into January with hope and new stories to share.

In this month’s newsletter, you’ll find:
📚 Free fantasy, historical, & sweet romance books
🤩 Celebrating the release of Whispers and Wings, the final Brodyr Alarch story
✍️ A peek at what I’m writing next (contemporary fantasy romance & magical realism)
🌙 Folklore, gentle beginnings, and winter magic

If you love stories where legends live, fairy tales are rewritten, and magic slips quietly into the everyday, I’d love for you to read along.

Read the January newsletter here ➜ https://morgan-sheppard-author.kit.com/posts/january-s-quiet-promise

As always, thank you for being part of this journey — it means more than I can say 💙
     
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Morgan Sheppard (1036 KP) created a post

Jul 17, 2026  
It's #FolkloreFriday 🐱

This week's folklore Friday explores the cat in Celtic and Welsh mythology — a creature the tradition never quite trusted to be simply domestic.

The Cath Palug of Welsh legend began as an ordinary kitten and grew into a creature of monstrous destructive power, which reflects something the broader Celtic tradition understood instinctively about cats. They were threshold guardians, Otherworld creatures that chose to sit beside human fires without ever fully relinquishing where they'd come from. They watched things invisible to everyone else. They knew things by means that didn't bear close examination.

The Celtic animal month of the Cat is running alongside the tree month of Holly right now — both of them quietly liminal, both of them more formidable than they first appear.

#FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore #CelticMythology #TalesFromWales