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<h1 class="mb-2">The Alpha Flame: <span class="fw-light">Story Map</span></h1>
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A hand-drawn guide to the Midlands setting of <em>The Alpha Flame: Discovery</em>, sketched to show how the key places relate in 1983. Schematic, not to scale.
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Hand-drawn story map of the 1983 Midlands setting. Locations and routes are indicative for reader orientation.
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Cock Hill Lane</h2>
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">The Doweries & Deelands Road</h2>
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Rubery Hill Hospital</h2>
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Frankley & Reservoir</h2>
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Barnt Green & The Inn</h2>
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Redditch: Limelight & Washford Mill</h2>
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Belbroughton: The Bell</h2>
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Austin Longbridge</h2>
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<h2 class="h5 card-title">Birmingham</h2>
<p class="card-text">The city on the horizon. Bigger, busier, sometimes darker, always shaping the choices nearby.</p>
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Artistic interpretation of 1983 locations; relationships over precise distances.
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