Natalie floating on a reservoir overlooking the town. Originally a colliery which supplied
coal to the nearby copper works at Taibach, it later flooded to supply water to the docks. The
depth is rumoured to be over 100ft and home to many cars which have fallen in and sunk to
the bottom.
‘It was a warm and clear summer night in 1996, during the early hours me and my best
friend strolled along the beach promenade...we were both stopped dead in our tracks. In the
matter of seconds some sort of aircraft hovered a few metres above our
heads, covering the entire sky before shooting off at lightning speed into the distance.
I have thought about that night often in the twenty-seven years since, it probably led to my
fascination with the cosmos and the infinite nature of it all. It seems both absurd and
arrogant to me that we would think we are alone in the universe/ multiverse.’
© Roo Lewis 2023 courtesy GOST Books
