Guardian City

10/08/2025

https://guardiancity.co.uk/the-man-who-walks-with-a-hundred-hungry-paws/

Caterpillar Flood trades tiny portraits for meat, feeding the strays who follow him through Guardian City’s alleys like a living ribbon.

21/06/2025

Abel Nutkin has been fined for defacing 24 adverts across Guardian City. His defence? That Nutkin’s Spread belongs to him — in name, spirit, and recipe.

He claims theft. The court wasn’t convinced. We spoke to Mr Nutkin to find out what, exactly, is going on.

Full interview

Abel Nutkin defaced 24 chocolate spread posters in a week, claiming a condiment conspiracy. He says it's not madness - it's self-defence.

24/04/2025

💔 “I broke up with my boyfriend four months ago. It’s sad, but I’m past it now. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it, truly – because it was my first real heartbreak – but I think I can make it part of me. If you asked me four months ago… that was a different story. I was at the end. He didn’t cheat or anything. We just weren’t right for one another, and that’s worse. Like, if we had met a year later, or he liked reading a little more. Tiny differences. What helped was… he started showing up in mirrors and reflections – not as himself, exactly, but gestures. The way he used to rub his eyes when tired. The slope of his shoulder. It didn’t scare me. It felt like he was giving me space to feel it all. Like he was helping me let go. Now I see people in the street looking sad and I feel for them. It’s like I suddenly see so much sadness everywhere. Before, I thought happiness was inevitable. Now I understand you have to work at it – and even that might not be enough. These are tough lessons.”

22/04/2025

“I can’t take the steps anymore. Haven’t since I was 17. My life’s become very two-dimensional, and I do miss the top deck of a bus, or the view from an upper storey. Sadly, that’s beyond me now. I’m no longer embarrassed to say it – not that stairs frighten me, exactly. That would be too strong. I’m not afraid of the stairs themselves, the treads or the banisters. But when you realise – that each step is a step closer to – well, not doom. I don’t want to be melodramatic. Just – at the top, I feel depleted. As though an entire decade has passed just getting there. It’s not a fitness thing. I’m fit as a fiddle. It's just feeling. Like the stairs know how this ends for me."

16/04/2025

“I’m doing pottery now. That’s my new passion. First off, it was conversational French, then ballroom dancing, then I did a season at the music hall as the back end of a cow. You’ve got to have something to get you up in the morning, that’s what I say. For a couple of years after the wife died, I sat around the house. Then I saw this advert for needlework classes. I thought I might meet someone. But that wasn’t the point. Point! Ha! You should see my house, all these embroideries on the walls. Now it’s pots. Pots, pots, pots. Everyone will be getting pots for birthdays.” 🎩🏺

14/04/2025

“I saved up enough money to get out of the city. I just wanted to get out. Woke up one morning and thought, there has to be something better. I don’t think I’ve ever walked on grass. Or seen the sea. I worked for a publishing company bundling up magazines, 12 hours a day. It was back breaking. After that, I worked behind a bar, cleaning up slops and taking all the cheap comments with a smile. Slept about three hours a day. I was exhausted. But all that money went towards a ticket. I bought a map, hung it on the wall. I’d ring all these place names – Elarrow by the Mere, Thistledown Reach, Wimbrook Vale. One morning, that was it. I thought - now or never. Went to the railway station, bought a ticket the furthest place my money could take me. They said, you can’t take the dog. I said, What? They said, You can’t take the dog on the train. I said, it’s my dog, it’s my Mitsy. They said, rules is rules. So I turned round and went back home. Didn’t think twice. Still got the ticket, still got the dog. You think I’m crazy? What you got?”

12/03/2025

📢 INTERVIEW: Bella Morgan – The Bitter Rival Who Changed Everything 🎭

Twenty years ago, a scathing review nearly ended Bella Morgan’s career before it began. Instead, it made her a star. Now, she returns to the role that defined her.

🎭 Read about the rivalry, the betrayal, and the night she found her true power on stage.

🖋️ Another intriguing tale from Guardian City 🎩

🔗 Read the full story

Twenty years after her star-making debut, Bella Morgan revisits the role that made her—and the man who tried to stop her.

02/03/2025

📞 The Trumpet Call: A Mystery That Refuses to Die 🔥

It started with a phone call. A man, trapped in a house, unable to escape. He spoke of doors that wouldn’t open and a presence outside. And then – silence. Years later, his frantic words became a hit play, leaving the world wondering: was it real, or a brilliantly staged hoax?

But now, a body has been found in a locked room, a phone cord still wrapped around its neck. Is this the final answer, or just another twist?

🖋️ Another intriguing tale from Guardian City 🎩

A vanished writer, a chilling call, and a body found years later – was it a tragedy or the greatest hoax in history? The mystery deepens

25/02/2025

🗡️ In Guardian City’s Trample District, a feud between two kebab families has gone from petty rivalry to full-blown Skewer Duels. The stakes? Not just territory but pride. What started as a business move is now a deadly, ritualised battle. As customers line up for their beloved post-theatre snack, they have no idea what’s simmering beneath the surface. Read more about this bloody but oddly civilised conflict.🥙

🖋️Another intriguing tale from Guardian City 🎩

The Sittens and the Peletti families settle a decades-old feud through deadly means, with customers unaware of the bloody stakes.

21/02/2025

Louise Reefe has been searching for a legendary knot – the Lover’s Turn. If tied, it binds two lovers forever. If it comes undone, so does their love. A pauper girl once tied it and won a prince, but in the frenzy of a dance, the knot slipped – and so did his love. Now, Reefe is offering a bounty for anyone who can prove how it works. Could this mythical knot really exist? Read the full story here. 🔗

Louise Reefe has spent decades searching for the Lover’s Turn, a legendary knot said to seal love forever – or undo it with a single slip.

19/02/2025

📢 A Cause You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of
Outside the Department of Health, Elliot Vance stands with a candle and a tuning fork, calling for awareness of Spontaneous Venous Resonance Syndrome, a condition dismissed by doctors but felt, he insists, by those who listen. Beside him, Marian Shaw hands out leaflets, ensuring the message stays alive. Would you listen? Would you feel it? 🔦🕯

The latest slice of life in Guardian City

Elliot Vance holds a vigil for an ailment no one believes in. Beside him, Marian Shaw ensures the flame – literal and not – stays alight.

16/02/2025

🐍 GUARDIAN CITY'S LATEST MYSTERY 🦎

Mild-mannered optician Stanley Burke was loved for his careful eye exams. But when he disappeared, police uncovered a shocking secret.

As the search for Burke continued, zookeepers at the city’s reptile house noticed something odd – Handsome George, their python, had developed a huge lump in his stomach.

Are the two events connected?

Read another tale of Guardian City life

Police searching for skin doctor to the stars Stanley Burke make an unexpected discovery - and an off-the-scale connection.