Dotty cried all the way

Dotty cried all the way is a writing prompt taken from the short story No Hodding, in my 2023 collection, Who can believe in witches?

Uncle Jim told Mam the rumours and the price o’ coal dropping, and said t’was easy to see bad times coming. Mine owners’ greediness and them in government not understanding. How could they? Uncle Jim tugged his beard. Never seen the outside of a mine more likely, least of all swing a pick in a foot and half of puddling blackness with a candle for light for twel...