Windscale’s two piles had been hastily built during the British atomic bomb project.
— Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
The island is enough, with its vegetable patches and firepit sheltered by dry walls at the island’s highest point; its rocky corners suitable for leaps into the sea that Antje has marked with little piles of stones.
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