We Were Hull

Dominic Bell is an oil rig worker from Hull, East Yorkshire, and writes as a break from either staring at the sea off Norway or looking after three teenagers in his time off. His main writing project is endlessly editing a series of First World War novels, the number of which increase by one annually due to NaNoWriMo. He tries to enter almost all the WM short story competitions to diversify his writing and have the satisfaction of actually finishing something. This is his seventh WM win.

I was starting to get anxious how long Lena had been and was relieved to see the boat approaching. I pulled on my waders, went downstairs, and splashed through the mud of the hall to open the steel door. She piloted the boat smoothly into the living room, securing it on the riser pole in the half lit gloom. The steel and concrete made the room more like a bunker than a place where I had played in as a child front of the gas