Volume VI · Issue 22·Summer 2026·Sheerness, Kent·Founded 2020
Section · 02

Features —
the longer look,
slowly.

Long-form reported pieces about coastal trade, archives, and the structures within which both happen. Usually 4,000 to 6,000 words. Written when the story is ready, not on a deadline.

Selected features.

Customs ledger
Feature · Archive

The customs ledger that survived three fires.

A hand-written ledger from the late Victorian period, recently rediscovered in the back office of a small Sheerness firm.

Maeve Halloran · 17 minRead feature →
Auction
Feature · Trade

A morning at the monthly coastal auction.

One auctioneer, two hundred lots, and a small but persistent clientele who have been showing up on the second Saturday of every month for, in some cases, the past twenty-five years.

Petar Iliescu · 13 minRead feature →