Michelle Egan

Michelle is from all four corners and the middle of England. She's a University of Exeter BA English graduate and teaches the English language to people all over the world. She's also lived in Spain, Japan, and Italy. When she's not reading, she likes to free dive.

Into Silence

It was temperate in the sunshine, light fanned from the boughs of tall conifers onto a cream-coloured house, which was once home to a pair of wild cobras, skittling in and out of their hole under its porch. These days, the abbot was the only resident, visited by attendants instead of poisonous snakes. The building itself was unmoving while life grew around it.