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I live just down the road from Ocean Terminal: a huge, baffling, eerily-vacant shopping mall on the watery edge of Edinburgh. It’s an uncomfortable, awkward, mediated space… which I nonetheless find oddly compelling.

This piece – part of a series written for my alternative writing retreat The Liminal Residency – takes readers on a guided walk through the shopping centre. Along the way there are misplaced benches, abandoned gardens, and a surprising amount of art.