Nick Holdstock is the author of The Tree That Bleeds. His work has appeared in the London Review of Books, n+1, The Dublin Review, Salon, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Southern Review. He was awarded the 2012 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship.
Nick Holdstock
Articles by Nick Holdstock
Monday April 22
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Yet even in the midst of progress, history remained. Every town and city retained traces of its past: a statue; a plaque on a wall; a hitching post for horses; a dried-up well into which people dropped coins in exchange for luck.