Pandora

This month’s story is a reworking of a classic tale by Selwyn Morgan.

Selwyn started writing short stories and poems late in life, and even had the time to write a novel, Going Up Camborne Hill, about the dispersion of Cornish tin miners across the world. This novel also drew on Selwyn’s own life experience of growing up in a mining community in South Wales. His work often portrays the humorous side of life, even if the subject matter involves the hardships to be found in the lives of our ancestors. Selwyn is well-travelled, having lived and worked in Kuwait and Jordan, countries in a region whose recent history has been a fertile source of his writing inspiration. He remains active in the community and has often been found treading the boards of various local theatres playing roles as varied as the Mikado and Captain Smith of the Titanic. You can read Pandora’s Box here.