Bella

A spectre has haunted Netherton for generations.Everyone has a theory no one has an answer.The woods that frame the housing estate uncover a series of heinous acts drawing onlookers in to a space of clandestine queer sexuality.A question echoes in the borderlands of being of fear-fascination of sex and death...Who put Bella down the Wych-Elm?R. M. Francis is a writer from Dudley. He completed his PhD at the University of Wolverhampton for a project titled Queering the Black Country and graduated from Teesside University for his Creative Writing MA.Hes the author of four poetry chapbooks Transitions (The Black Light Engine Room Press 2015) Orpheus (Lapwing Publications 2016) Corvus Burnt-Wing Love Balm and Cure-All (The Black Light Engine Room Press 2018) and Lamella (Original Plus 2019).