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A writer · A name · A long road east
Bramare
Lui
A writer of historical fiction.
The stories travel a long road
before they arrive.
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A writer of historical fiction.
The stories travel a long road
before they arrive.
The Half-Pearl
Acre, June 1191. The city has just fallen to the Crusaders.
At the docks, in the heat, two men keep finding each other
by the dock master's office.
Some roads are measured in miles.
Some are measured in what you become
by the time you arrive.
Episodes fortnightly.
Each preceded by an Archive Essay —
the history behind the story.
Each story travels with research. The Archive Essays arrive the week before each episode — the history, the poetry, the lost traditions that make the fiction possible.
Medieval Arabic love poetry. The troubadour tradition. The long roads between civilisations at war that were also, quietly, roads between people.
The story lives on Substack. Everything else points toward it.
For questions, for the research behind the stories, for something a reader needed to say. I read everything.
Your letter has been received.
— Bramare Lui